Pirate Ports and Harbours of West Cork in the Early Seventeenth Century

Journal of Maritime Archaeology - Tập 8 - Trang 347-366 - 2013
Connie Kelleher1
1Underwater Archaeology Unit, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, County Kerry, Ireland

Tóm tắt

In the early part of the seventeenth century in Ireland select harbours along the southwest coast of Munster acted as the North Atlantic headquarters for pirates, primarily made up of English mariners. The places picked by the pirates as their bases were spatially strategic and three harbours in particular dominated this West Cork landscape—Baltimore, Leamcon and Crookhaven. Complicit English officers facilitated this activity and pirates and their families settled on the estates of the local officials while others used this pirate landscape as a staging point for plundering adventures further afield. As a consequence, piracy in Irish waters at that time had a profound influence on local economies, social activities and, in some cases, political events. Indeed the tolerance shown to it in the early seventeenth century in the southwest may be explained by the fact that it facilitated the colonial effort ongoing under the Munster Plantation and thus, inadvertently, suited the purposes of official government.

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