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died at a very advanced age in 1793. He was suc- 

 ceeded by his nephew, the Very Keverend Holt 

 Waring, Dean of Dromore, who was born in 1766, 

 and whom I had the honour to know. With him I 

 happened to be travelling through the Mourne moun- 

 tains, in the county of Down, on our way to the Earl 

 of Roden's, about the year 1 8 34 or 1 8 3 5 , when the con- 

 versation turning upon the social condition of Ireland 

 in the previous century, he told me that a foal belonging 

 to his uncle had been killed by a Wolf in the stable 

 at Waringstown, and that he, when a boy, had heard 

 the occurrence repeatedly adverted to in the family 

 circle. The dean was a man of singularly acute mind 

 and accurate memory, and unless this statement of his 

 be altogether a delusion, this would seem to be the 

 last recorded appearance of a Wolf in Ireland." 



The last piece of evidence collected has reference 

 to a communication which appeared in The 

 Zoologist for 1862 (p. 7996), under the heading, 

 " Wolf Days of Ireland." On applying to the writer, 

 Mr. Jonathan Grubb, of Sudbury, for further parti- 

 culars, he obligingly replied in a letter, dated June 6, 

 1877, as follows : — 



" I am now in my seventieth year. My father, 

 who was born in 1767, used to tell the Wolf stories 

 to us when we were children. His mother — my 

 grandmother — related them to him. She was born in 

 173 1. Her maiden name was Malone ; and her 

 uncles, from whom she received her information, were 

 the actors in the scenes described at Ballyroggin, 

 county Kildare. She remembered one of them, 



