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else must have lain inland in the vicinity of Lough Melville, which 

 formed the northern boundary of O'Eourke's territory, according to 

 the map cited. As, however, the village which he reached evidently 

 lay not far from the coast, it may have been in the vicinity of Bun- 

 drowse or Bundoran, which parts were still safe at the period for the 

 Spaniards, as would appear from the entry in the State Papers 

 already mentioned, p. 53, vol. cxxxvii., 10, iv., where appears the 

 statement, " The M'Glanoughes will not suffer our spies to pass." 



8. " While begging there (at O'Rourke's house) news was con- 

 veyed to us that there was a Spanish ship oS the coast. 

 Hearing this news some twenty of us without more ado set 

 off in the direction in which we were told the ship lay." — 

 (p. 206.) 

 Evidently, therefore, O'Eourke's house or hut was in a village or 

 town not far from the sea coast, and at about five to six leagues 

 distance from the scene of the wreck, say about 15 to 18 miles from 

 Dernish Islands counted along the sea coast. In the State Papers 

 (Ireland) Calendar, referred to p. 464, is given the names of the five 

 baronies in O'Eourke's country. The barony of Eoslougher is given 

 as M'Grlannough's country. O'Eourke's house was called " Newton," 

 and was situated in none of the five baronies mentioned, but stood 

 upon the borders of his country, near to Sligo, and had belonging to 

 it eight quarters of land in demesne called " Moyghhells." As Sligo 

 was, however, at the time in question in the hands of the English 

 forces which Cuellar was carefully avoiding, it cannot have been at 

 that house that he was begging when the news of the arrival of the 

 Spanish ship on the coast was brought him. 



"And pointed out the road that I should follow, in order to 

 reach, a castle distant about six leagues from there, the castle 

 of Manglana, such being the title of the native with whom I 

 then was. Since the castle was very strong and very difficult 

 to carry, unless it were stormed by artillery, having its 

 foundations in a lake, there very deep, and more than a league 

 broad in certain places, and some three or four leagues long, 

 having further a communication with the sea, but so that even 

 during spring tides, there could be no approach made by that 

 way. Eor these reasons, the castle could not be carried, either 

 by water or from the land side, which is nearest to it, nor. 



