Above : Tomb Of Baron Howth

Only a few weeks after this (May 1607), an anonymous letter, purporting to give an account of a plot, which was being hatched to seize Dublin Castle and murder the Lord Deputy, was dropped outside the Council Chamber. The writer proved to be Christopher St. Lawrence, Baron Howth, who, on being interrogated by the Deputy, named Rory O’Donnell, Cuconnacht Maguire and several others as amongst the conspirators, but confessed that he had no evidence against Tyrone. Howth’s story entirely lacked corroboration, so that neither Chichester nor the English Privy Council, when it was placed before them, appear to have had much belief in it.

 Above : Clan O’Donnel Logo

Above: Harbour of Kinsale