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6. "And reaching the mountain ridge pointed out to me as a 

 sign, I came on a lake around which were some thirty huts. 

 ' God guided us in the evening to these huts.' " — (p. 203.) 



The lake here mentioned could not, therefore, be much more than 

 a day's journey of march, such as weak, starved and naked men could 

 make, from the scene of the wreck. It must have been small, to be 

 described as being surrounded by thirty huts, and must have lain in a 

 north-easterly direction from the scene of the wreck. On Pettys' map 

 there is a small lake marked, as then existing, near the point where 

 now is the village of Cliff ony, and therefore quite near to the then, 

 existing road. On the Ordnance Survey map, the only lake marked 

 in the vicinity of Cliffony is Lough Cloonty to the E.S.E. thereof. 

 There is also a small lake (Lough Aderry) lying about four miles 

 north-east of Cliffony, and near the border of O'Rourke's country, 

 which might possibly be the lake mentioned. 



7. "That near to this place we would come on a country of 

 friends and Christians, that I had information of a village 

 some three or four leagues off, belonging to the Lord de 

 Euerque."— (p. 204.) 



Compare State Papers, Ireland, 1588-92, p. 49, vol. cxxxvii., 

 October 1. — Sir R. Bingham to the Lord Deputy. " So as now this 

 province stands clear and rid of all these foreign enemies save a 

 ' silly ' poor prisoners, except O'Rourke do keep any contrary to 

 our general order and proclamation, whereof I have not heard from 

 my brother how he hath answered him in that point." 



Id. p. 54, same vol., 10, x. — Gen. Fenton to Lord Deputy. 

 " O'Eourke, M'Glannogh, Maguire and the Burkes in Mayo" are 

 combined with the Spaniards. "The Spaniards with the M'Sweeny 

 lay last night at Donegal, not 10 miles beyond the Earne," October 9, 

 Ballymote. 



In the map of Ireland, given in Walpole's " Short History of 

 Ireland" (1882), of the country before the Anglo-Norman Invasion, 

 the territory of O'Eourke is limited on the west by a line running 

 from a point on the coast somewhat south of the mouth of the Eiver 

 Drowes to the eastern extremity of Lough Gill. Assuming that the 

 village spoken of by Cuellar was on O'Eourke' s territory, and near 

 the coast, it could only lie in the narrow tongue of the territory lying 

 between the point mentioned and the mouth of the Drowes Eiver, or 



