Above: Map of Tralee, Ireland

Desmond, with his brother John and Baltinglass, who had joined them, were encamped near Tralee, but they remained inactive ; though that, with the defeat of the foreign expedition, their last hope of success was bound to vanish, they must well have known. They may have intended marching to the help of the Spaniards, when the unexpected surrender of the fort disorganised their plans. Some months after (1581), John Fitzgerald was slain in a skirmish by one Thomas Fleming.