Fort of Gold (Ireland)--Siege, 1580

found: Work cat.: Smerwick Massacre, Smerwick, Ireland, 1580, 1966 :p. 161 (the English fleet anchored in Smernick Bay and fired at the Fort of Gold; Lord Grey de Wilton, the new Lord Lieutenant of London, gathered an army and set up camp outside the fort)

found: 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: BBC WWW site, July 19, 2006:The Siege of Fort del Oro p. (About 1,000 Spanish soldiers under the command of the Bolognese Sebastiano di San Joseppi, with assorted other Catholic forces, landed near the town of Smerwick in Munster. Far from immediately setting forth in search of the enemy, they settled into the fort of Del Oro to await the arrival of the English ... The naval blockade of Fort del Oro began on 5 November under the command of Admiral William Winter. The next day, the army of General Arthur Grey, Baron de Wilton, of some 3,000 Englishmen arrived and began the first cautious skirmishes with the Catholic forces. Bombardment began on the 7 November, and within a day the entirety of the Spanish artillery was destroyed as well as long sections of earthen wall ... On 9 November English soldiers were allowed to enter the fort in order to accept the surrender of their enemy. They proceeded to slaughter the exhausted and thirsty soldiers by sword and pike ... The slaughter of Smerwick, as it came to be known, is still remembered with controversy in Irish history)