O'Reilly — Remarks on Captain Ciiellar's Narrative. 183" 



It is therefore reasonable to assume that the native Lord 

 "Manglana," who received and succoured Cuellar, was the then 

 M'Clancy or M'Glannagh, as he is named in Bingham's letter. 

 M'Grannal is also a possible reading, but there is nothing to show 

 that any chief of that name succoured the wrecked Spaniards. 

 Assuming that the chief referred to was the M'Clancy, there arises 

 the question as to the locality of the castle which Cuellar describes. 

 Now, the residence of the M'Clancy was on an island in Lough Melville,, 

 as mentioned by O'Donovan, and it might be inferred that it was 

 the castle on that island that was defended by Cuellar against the 

 Queen's forces ; but taking into account that the castle defended was. 

 six leagues from a place near the coast, and situated on the edge of a 

 lake (not on an island), that the lake was three or four leagues long, 

 and more than a league broad, that marshy ground surrounded (at 

 the time), the neighbouring town to a distance of a league (character- 

 istics which do not agree with those of Lough Melville), it is more 

 reasonable to look for the position of this castle either on the north- 

 east side of Lower Lough Eame (say in the neighbourhood of the 

 present Kesh), or possibly on the south-west side, opposite Derrygonilly, 

 near the territory of the M'Clancy, and such that it would be relatively 

 easy for him to withdraw to Slieve M'Glanaghy. The indications of 

 old castles on the Ordnance Survey map of Lough Earne are few, 

 and give but little help in this respect ; while from O'Donovan's 

 letters on Fermanagh (1839), p. 56, it appears that the country was 

 (even at that date) " nearly as wild now, in the nineteenth century, 

 as it was in the sixteenth century, during the rage of chieftain fights 

 and bad laws," while at p. 39, he speaks of the country about as being 

 "altogether an unexplored region, exhibiting ruins of castles and 

 churches of which nothing is known." It may not be out of place 

 to here insert the letter of Sir Eichard Bingham to the Lord Deputy, 

 from Athlone, April 24th, 1590. State Papers, Ireland, 1588-92, 

 p. 333, vol. cli., 84 i. — Details of the charge made by Sir George 

 Bingham on O'Eourke's force — M'Glannaghe's head brought in. 

 " M'Glannaghe ran for a lough which was near, and tried to save 

 himself by swimming, but a shot broke his arm, and a gallowglass 

 brought him ashore. He was the best killed man in Connaught a 

 long time. He was the most barbarious creature in Ireland, and had 

 always 100 knaves about him. He would never come before any 

 officer. His country extended from the Grange beyond Sligo, till you 

 came to Ballyshannon. He was O'Rourke's right hand. He had 

 some 14 Spaniards, some of whom were taken alive." 



