O'Eeilly — Remarks on Captain CueUar''s Narrative. 177 



heavy weather opened her anew in the canal (between Scotland and 

 Ireland), and nine sailors alone of the whole crew escaped. 



In Lough Foyle a galley with 1100 men was wrecked. Three 

 ships perished in Sligo Haven. ^ 



" Three vessels cast away at Sligo." 



A Guipuzcoan ship was totally lost in Blasket Sound, only one 

 man having been saved. 



Nine other vessels were lost between Lough Foyle and Lough 

 Swilly without there being anything ascertained as to the localities 

 of the wrecks and the numbers saved. 



" Between the islands of Erith and Ila (island of Faril) of 

 the Hebrides, two vessels went ashore, after having had to 

 contend with the stormy weather up to the end of September. 

 Twice had one of them reached as far as Cabo Clare (Cape 

 Clear), and each time had to put back, with the ship's sides 

 open, which the crew repaired with cowhides, the pumps not 

 stopping for a moment. Finally they reached a place of 

 anchorage, at which they disembarked, and immediately after- 

 wards the ship sank . . . 



"Having saved their lives from the sea, they lost them by 

 hunger on land." 



In the general map of Robert Adams, or Adamo, drawn up in the 

 same year, 1588, 17 wrecks are marked as having taken place on the 

 coast of Ireland. Strype gives the same number, with 4791 men lost. 



In this list of wrecks only one group of three ships is mentioned, 

 that is the three great galleons mentioned as having been lost in Sligo 

 Bay or Haven (about the 14th or 15th September); this corresponds 

 with the number mentioned by Cuellar. As to the particular locality 

 in Sligo Bay at which the wreck occurred, it would seem to have been 

 on Streedagh Strand, as would appear from the following extracts 

 from Wood-Martin's "History of Sligo, 1882," pp. 324-5 :— 



"Sunset on a September eve saw three huge galleons blundering 

 through the race between Tory Island and the Donegal Coast, units 

 of the Great Armada, which had been scattered to all points of the 

 compass. — Midnight brought the storm; furious squalls in quick 

 succession came up from the Atlantic, a wild, fierce wind sweeps 

 over the dark sea. All through the night they are driven about at 



1 Compare State Papers, Ireland, 1588-92, p. 41, vol. cxxxvi. 43, iii. : Sir R. 

 Bingham and others to the Lord Deputy, September I5th. 



