Catalogue description CASTLE of CLOGHAN O'MADDEN.

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Title: CASTLE of CLOGHAN O'MADDEN.
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"The names of such chief men as were killed in the castle of Cloghan O'Madden at the winning thereof," 12th of March 1595. [See Russell's Diary under that date.]

 

Eleven names are given. Two gentlemen of O'Rorcke's country (names not known) were also killed.

 

II. "The names of the chief men killed in the conflict the day before the winning of the castle."

 

The names of eight are given.

 

"The rest were shot, bowmen and kearne. The whole number killed and drowned (besides those in the castle) were seven score and upwards, besides some hurt, which escaped, being unarmed, and fled away in great amazement."

 

Copy.
Date: 12 March 1596
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 612, p. 62
Language: English
Physical description: 1 Page.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 235.

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