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indeed, could any harm be done it, since for a breadth, of a 

 league in extent all round the town (which is built on firm 

 ground) there extend marshes in which one would sink up to the 

 breast, so that there is no approach to it but by narrow paths." — 

 (p. 206.) 

 All these indications point to the castle having been situated on 

 the shore of Lough Earne, at a distance of about six leagues from 

 Bundoran or " Ballyshannon along the road, and probably on the 

 northern shore, where the ground is low and used to be flooded by the 

 winter waters of the lake, and even still is, to a certain extent. Th& 

 season of the events spoken of by Cuellar was about November, and 

 the native Lord !Manglana was in all probability the M' Clancy of the- 

 time, since he was one of the native chiefs mentioned as having given 

 asylum to the Spaniards who had escaped from the wreck of the 

 Armada. Thus, in the State Papers cited, it is stated in the summary 

 given in the preface, p. xv. : — " The son of O'Rourke, who lately ran 

 away from Oxford, lieth upon the borders of his country with 200 

 men, and M'Glanathie has made proclamation to all the wood kerne 

 to resort unto him and they shall have entertainment." And p. xl. : 

 On the 12th October, Sir Ptichard Bingham wrote to the Lord Deputy 

 that he doubts the Earl of Tyrone more than all the combinations of 

 the Spaniards with Sir Brian O'Rourke, M'Glannagh, Maguire, and 

 M'Mahon, The name given here, M'Glannagh, might very easily 

 sound in the ear of the Spaniard, and be written by him, " Manglana." 

 In Lewis' " Topographical Dictionary of Ireland," under the heading 

 " Leitrim," is mentioned Breffey O'Eoiirke, as represented by the 

 present baronies of Carrigallan and ITohill, the principal families of 

 which were the Maghranalls, or M'Grannals ; further, the O'Rourkes 

 ruled over several subordinate septs, the principal families of which 

 were the O'Murrays, M'Loughlins, M'Glanchies and M'Grannils. 

 In O'Donovan's letters on the Co. Fermanagh, p. 56, he says: "I 

 landed on Inis Caoin, the ancient residence of the M'Clancy (now 

 Maglanshie)." 



In Henry's account of Upper Lough Earne in 1739 (republished 

 by WGee, 1892), p. 50, it is stated: "Lough lI'Kane or M'Xeau, 

 fills up the whole of the bottom that lies between the mountains of 

 Dubally on the south, the Doows and Slieve M'Glanaghy on the west, 

 and Belmore on the north." On Charles O'Conor's edition of Ortelin's 

 Map of Ireland (dedicated to the Duke of Leinster, no date, about 

 1753), the territory corresponding to the position of Slieve Al'Glanaghy,. 

 is marked as being that of MacClancy. 



