O'Reilly — Remarks on Captain Cuellar\ Narrative. 179 



2. " Until finally lie put us on a road leading from the shore 

 to a village."— (p. 200.) 



This village was seemingly not far from the shore. 



3. " And I commenced to get along little by little and reached 

 the top of a hill from whence I discovered some thatched 

 huts, which I made for, the road leading through a valley." — 

 (p. 200.) 



This village was probably Grange, as no other village is marked 

 on Pettys' map — possibly it may be " Cliffoney " ; both are situated 

 •on the coast road as shown in Pettys' map. 



4. * ' The boy turning to me told me to keep on straight for the 

 mountains, which seemed to be about six leagues distant from 

 there, that behind these lay a good country belonging to a 

 great and lordly native." — (p. 202.) 



These mountains would seem to have been (taking the Spanish 

 league as equal to 3*66 English miles) (Encyclop., Lond., 1829) as 

 those of southern Donegal (Tyrconnel), which from their heights, 

 ranging up to 2219 feet in the case of the Bluestack Mountain, might 

 well be visible from the neighbourhood of Streedagh Strand. The 

 direction given is northerly ("taking the northerly direction pointed 

 by the boy to me"), but the direction of the road could only be 

 north-easterly along the coast. Compare State Papers (Ireland) 

 Calendar, 1588-92, p. 53, vol. cxxxvii., 10, iv. — Gelf. Eenton to the 

 Lord Deputy. " The Spaniards are marching towards Sligo, and are 

 very near Lough Earne," 1588, October 7, Sligo. 



5. " That night I reached some huts where no harm was done 

 me 



" These people were making the round of the coast, robbing 

 and killing all the Spaniards they could meet with." — (p. 202.) 



This would tend to prove that Cuellar was on the coast road, as 

 shown in Pettys' map. 



