Catalogue description The SPANISH ARMADA.

Spanish Ships and Men sunk, drowned, and taken prisoners upon the coast of Ireland in September 1588.

At Loghfoile: ships, 1; men, 1,100. Sligo: ships, 3; men, 1,500. In Tiralie: ships, 1; men, 400. Cleere Island: ships, 1; men, 300. At Finglas in O'Mayle's country: ships, 1; men, 400. In O'Flartie's country: ships, 1; men, 200. In Irris: ships, 2; the men saved in other vessels. In Galway haven one ship escaped, and lost prisoners 70. In the river of Shenan, ships 1 burnt; the men saved in other ships." Total of ships, 17; men, 5,394.

Signed: Geoffrey Fenton.

II. "A Note of such Ships of the Spanish Fleet as perished in September 1588 upon the coast of Ireland, as are not in this former certificate.

One ship of 500 tons sunk in the Sound of Blaskie, near Dingle-Coushe; the men saved by Don Joan de Ricaldo, Admiral of the Biskayne fleet. A ship called the Barque of Hambroughe, of 600 tons, sunk by reason of a leak; 200 of her men saved by other ships. A Venetian ship, called La Valencera, wrecked in O'Doghertie's country. One ship wrecked in McSwynye ne Doe's country, near Loghsuylly; her men saved. A great ship wrecked in O'Boyle's country; the men saved. One ship wrecked near Dunluse, wherein about 300 men perished.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. II, document 673.