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Title: A history of British mammals
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald Edwin Hamilton, 1871-1914 Wilson, Edward Adrian, 1872-1912 Dollman, J. G Hinton, Martin A. C. (Martin Alister Campbell), b. 1883
Subjects: Mammals Bats Insectivores (Mammals) Rodents
Publisher: London : Gurney and Jackson

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e, Keeper, in lit., 30th January1895), as well as at the Deeps (Col. C. S. Walker, in lit., 21st April1896), and at Edermine (Sir J. Power, in lit., April 1898), the two latterlocalities being in Wexford. By the same date they had quite overrunCo. Meath (Rev. J. B. Gibson, in lit, 26th December 1895). Theyhave also appeared in the west, having been reported from Kerry(Jenner, Field, 24th October 1908, 721), and there can be no doubt thattheir presence may be confidently expected in the immediate futurein all the wooded parts of Ireland. Although Barrington could not have justifiably decided otherwiseon the evidence which he had before him, there are now available anumber of records pointing to the presence of the Squirrel as anindigenous member of the Irish fauna in historical times, and thusconfirming the suggestion made previously by Harvie-Brown (op. cit.,p. 80). In the numerous lists of the exports of Ireland which havenow been published, and which date from the earliest times for
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< o o a.to pa THE BRITISH OR LIGHT-TAILED SQUIRREL 693 which we possess any information, even from before the NormanConquest, furs and skins always hold a prominent position (SinnFeinn, 1908, 130-138). The names of these are given in somedetail, and we find that of the Squirrel included, besides Horse,Ox, Sheep, Lamb, Deer, Wolf, Marten, Otter, Wild Cat, Hare andRabbit (op. cit., 130; also Mrs Greens The Making of Ireland and itsUndoing, 1908, 73). In the thirteenth century there are several allusions to a tax onSquirrel skins, as at Waterford, where in 1243 the citizens were allowedcustoms for walling the town, including those on the skins of Squirrels(Cal. Doc, Ireland, \., 2612,). A similar grant was allowed to the menof Drogheda in 1278 (op. cit., ii., 1517), of Cork in 1284 (op. cit., iii., 520),of Fethard in 1292 (op. cit., 1015), and again of Waterford on 28th June1291 (op. cit, 917).^ On 28th April 1286, Thomas Fitzmaurice wasgranted customs to enable him to wall Tralee and

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