Irelands Pirate Trail – Des Ekin

There is a persistent local tradition that some of the treasure that was ‘buried on land by these pirates’ (to quote the official English report of 1611) still remains concealed beneath the boulders and gorse bushes of these rugged headlands. One spooky legend claims that the pirate John Nutt – who, in reality, did keep a huge hoard of gold stashed away to bribe his way to freedom – buried his wealth at several points along this coast. As a local historian recorded in 1869: ‘It was customary with him to bury his kegs on various headlands, at then at each place to sacrifice a black slave, whose spirit, it is believed, even still keeps watch over the hoarded treasure.’

So beware. Do not hunt for buried treasure in these parts … unless you want to risk incurring the curse of John Nutt and the ghostly guardians of his gold. OceanofPDF.com Pirate Pilgrimage the Ninth Castleisland t has just stopped raining and the sun is breaking through, bright and brittle, as I walk through the north Kerry market town of Castleisland – described by its most celebrated native, the late writer Con Houlihan, as ‘not so much a town as a street between fields’.

He was referring to Castleisland’s most famous feature – an extraordinarily wide main street that looks broad enough to cope with a Russian Mayday Parade. In a town of around 2,500 people, it seems delightfully out of proportion, almost as though Paris’s boulevard designer Baron Haussmann came here on a weekend trip, had a few Guinnesses and went a bit mad with a local bulldozer.

The town sits at the mouth of the Vale of Tralee, with the dark-green- and-dun slopes of the Glenaruddery Mountains to its north and the Stacks Mountains to the northwest. Tralee town, to the west, is a former buccaneering haven – they even have a street named after the Denny family, who were pirates in Elizabethan times – but I haven’t time to visit it on this journey. Maybe next trip. As I wander along the pleasant riverside walk, I find it hard to imagine that Castleisland was once a key frontier outpost in a bitter and bloody war between the feisty native Irish of South Kerry and the Norman conquerors who’d established themselves in the north of the county.

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Ekin is a wonderful guide through this engrossing tale.’ Sunday Times ‘What an extraordinary story’ The Pat Kenny Show OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com For Sally OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com Contents Title Page Dedication Preface Part I East by Sou’-East 1 Pirate Pilgrimage the First Dalkey, Tramore, New Ross, Dublin On the Trail of McKinley’s Gold 2 Pirate Pilgrimage the Second County Meath ‘I’ll Make You Officers … in Hell.’ 3 Pirate Pilgrimage the Third Wexford Town William Lamport, the Wex-Mex ‘Zorro’ 4 Pirate Pilgrimage the Fourth Saltees, Dublin City, Rush The Three Privateers and the Rebel Yell from Rush Part II South by Sou’-West 5 Pirate Pilgrimage the Fifth Waterford, Roaring Water Bay ‘He Led Them in a Carol, Then Clapped Them in Irons’ 6 Pirate Pilgrimage the Sixth Kinsale, Carolina, Caribbean Anne Bonny, Scourge of the Caribbean 7 Pirate Pilgrimage the Seventh Cork City, Brazil, Boston The Strange American Odyssey of Peter Roach 8 Pirate Pilgrimage the Eighth Berehaven, Leamcon, Baltimore, Valentia Island The Hellhounds of Dog’s Leap and the Pirate Armadas of West Cork 9 Pirate Pilgrimage the Ninth Castleisland The Framing of William Marsh Part III West by Nor’-West 10 Pirate Pilgrimage the Tenth Clare Island Grania Mania 11 Pirate Pilgrimage the Eleventh Broad Haven The Admiral, the Pirate, the Chieftain and his Daughters 12 Pirate Pilgrimage the Twelfth Killybegs ‘Twenty Good Men Could Cut Their Throats’ 13 Pirate Pilgrimage the Thirteenth Dunfanaghy, Achill Island The World’s Most Wanted Man Part IV North by Nor’-East 14 Pirate Pilgrimage the Fourteenth Portrush Black Tom, the Scummer of the Sea 15 Pirate Pilgrimage the Fifteenth Carrickfergus ‘I Drew My Sword for the Rights of Men’ 16 Pirate Pilgrimage the Sixteenth Belfast, Holywood, Bangor, Donaghadee Pirates and Belfast Lough 17 Pirate Pilgrimage the Seventeenth Rathlin, Inishowen, Howth, Strangford, Dublin The Viking Pirates, the Irish Slavemaster and the Captive Princess 18 Pirate Pilgrimage the Eighteenth Ringsend The Puzzle of the Ouzel Acknowledgements Source Notes Other Books About the Author Copyright OceanofPDF.com Ireland in the early 1600s, as charted in Pacata Hibernia: pirate clans controlled the west coast, and the labyrinth of islands and inlets of the southwest made an ideal base for freebooters from all over Europe.

OceanofPDF.com Preface In the dead of night, four pirates haul their longboat on to a deserted beach after hijacking a ship and killing almost everyone on board. On their way to shore they have left a trail of silver treasure across the seabed: their longboat was so laden down with pieces of eight that they were forced to jettison purseloads of the coins just to stay afloat.

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