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: "Heaney's love to Ireland" Twentieth century literature, v. 37, no. 3 (Autumn, 1991) :p. 280 (after heavy naval bombardment of their encampment at Fort del Oro on the rocky Dingle peninsula, the 600 Basque and Italian mercenaries sent from Spain under the papal flag surrendered, and were massacred by the English)
found: Wikipedia, June 27, 2006:Ard na Caithe [Smerwick Harbour] (Dún an Óir (Spanish: "Fort [sic] del Oro"), on 11 November 1580, the English, under Arthur, Grey de Wilton, massacred approximately 600 men and women, the products of six ships carrying Spanish, Italian and Irish soldiers from Santander, Spain, in response to the Earl of Desmond's requests for help in his insurrection against the English)
found: Wikipedia, June 27, 2006:Ballyferriter [village] (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)
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)
