Smerwick Massacre, Smerwick, Ireland, 1580

found: Work cat.: A history of Ireland, 2002:p. 172 (the fort at Smerwick, remembered by Irish as Dún an Óir ("The Fort of Gold") was besieged by Lord Deputy of Ireland and Sir Walter Raleigh, compelled to surrender, and its garrison massacred)

found: "Spenser and Ireland" English literary history, 1952:p. 131 (the poet was an eyewitness to the massacre at Smerwick, when at the orders of Lord Grey, the garrison of more than 600 papal soldiers was ruthlessly slaughtered)

found: Wikipedia, June 19, 2006:Ballyferriter (near Ballyferriter is Dún an Óir ("The Fort of Gold"), an Iron Age promontory fort, which was the scene of an infamous massacre in 1580 when it was once again used as a defensive position by James Fitzmaurice who stationed 600 Italian and Spanish soldiers there under the command of Sebastiano di San Giuseppe of Bologna. The Lord Deputy of Ireland, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, marched on the fort with 800 English soldiers and massacred the 600 Irish, Italian and Spanish occupants when they surrendered at the end of a three-day siege)