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thousand before the ordnance belonging to it was obtained. The rebels 

 plundered his fishing sellers at Dunbeaeon, Drishane, and Lymcon, and took 

 some 800 barrels of new salt. They took out of the seller at Lymcon, called 

 " The Myne," many masts, &c, for ships ; also boats at Donbeacon and 

 Lymcon, including a 12-ton boat at the latter going to Clonakelty. The 

 stores were rich in supplies of timber of all descriptions, pitch, malt, and 

 ammunition, and afforded a rich spoil to the natives of Ivagha. The timber 

 helps to account for the disappearance of the dense woods of this part of 

 Co. Cork. He alludes to the breaking of rocks at Lymcon and Clonakelty, 

 and other improvements, and claims (apparently) £1065, but the statements, 

 though very valuable for students of social history, tell us very little else 

 about the buildings and their owners. 



Another deposition of John Fletcher, of London, tells how he put into 

 Crookhaven from stress of weather, and was taken prisoner, robbed, and 

 maltreated, and escaped to Bandon. 



Richard Hull, Knogher Mahowne (7 ploughlands), Donogh Macffinne, 

 and Knoghr Macffinne appear as owners. The Down Survey lists state, " near 

 Leamcon Castle is a fair stone house, with an orchard," 2 but this was probably 

 at the modern house at the featureless fragment of the second castle, not on 

 the unsheltered rocky headland. Lastly, the Book of Distribution 3 notes 

 "Leamcon, 11 plough lands, 1241 acres of Richard Hull." 



Altar to Mizen Head (0. S. 147, 146). 



The remains from Lemcon to Mizen Head are worthy of a separate 

 paper, and mostly lie outside the scope of this survey. The drive round 

 Toormore Bay on to Ballydivlen is pleasing and picturesque. The fine 

 dolmen of Altar has two cups rudely chipped in the cover. It has been 

 described and figured in Borlase's " Dolmens of Ireland," 4 and elsewhere. 

 Doonlea was very probably a fort on a low shore-rock, once a headland, and 

 lies about 10 miles from Schull. An old road leads down to the shore near 

 it, but I could see no traces of fortification on it ; the drift bank may have 



1 Mss., T.C.D., F. 2, 17, Cork, vol. iii, p. 253, October 22, 1642 ; also (Fletcher), 

 p. 265. The uncritical acceptance or rejection of these very curious documents is a 

 reproach on Irish historians. A fine field lies in the depositions for unprejudiced 

 students of social history, and (no matter how much or how little of the statements 

 about the outrages may be unreliable) there is no excuse for those who cast aside the 

 whole mass on the dictum of Gilbert or any other historian. In no other country could 

 such neglect have been tolerated, still less defended. 



- See Cork H. and A. Soc, vol. xv, p. 126. 



3 Co. Cork, Kilmore, p. 525. 



1 Vol. i, pp. 44, 45. 



