O'Eeilly — Remarks on Captain Cuellar's Narrative. ISO* 



persons. The ship touched on a rock, and at once commenced to 

 make so much, water, that the pinnance was immediately put afloat 

 to carry the people on shore. The pinnance was, however, in bad 

 condition, so that at the sixth or seventh journey it went down, those 

 who were in her, having to save themselves by swimming, a good 

 many however were drowned. The first disembarked were the sick, 

 being about a hundred ; altogether the number landed was about 

 400 men with some arms, but having nothing to eat. They marched 

 along the coast, keeping by the rocks until they met two companies of 

 English and some cavalry, and being offered terms of capitulation 

 and security for their lives, they surrendered confidingly ; but in con- 

 travention of the conditions of surrender, the English stripped them 

 of their clothing to the skin, illused and killed many of them, only 

 80 of the soldiers escaping with their lives, as also the chiefs and 

 officers, who having been subsequently brought to the Capital 

 received more humane treatment." 



15. " Until after some time I lost sight of O'Can's Castle, and I 

 followed in the same direction until the approach of night 

 brought me to a very big Lagoon." — (p. 214.) 



Under the heading " Newtown-Limavady," Lewis' " Dictionary " 

 says: — "The district in which the town stands was anciently the 

 territory of the O'Cahans or 0' Canes, the head of the powerful and 

 warlike sept, whose Castle on the brow of a romantic Glen was called 

 * Limavaddy,' or the Dog's leap." 



16. " So that I was obliged to leave the place very early in the 

 morning, and take the road in search of a certain Bishop to be 

 met with some seven leagues from there in a castle to which 

 the English had obliged him to fly. . . . He had with him 

 twelve Spaniards whom he had intended to pass over to 

 Scotland."— (p. 214.) 



It may be inferred from these passages that the Castle of the 

 Bishop in question was situated near the sea-coast in the vicinity of 

 some point of embarkation for Scotland, and at a distance of about 

 8 or 10 leagues from l^ewtown-Limavaddy, probably somewhere about 

 the mouth of the Bann, or between that and the entrance of L. Eoyle. 



