Part III. History of the County of Clare
Chapter 20. Depositions of Protestant Settlers, 1642

Depositions relating to Latoon

John Smith of Lattoon, swears his losses amounted to £1,354, including his lease for a life of Lattoon, and his outlay upon buildings and sea embankments. Oliver Delahoyde of Fomerla, with fifty men came, on the night of the 15^th of January, 1642, and stripped him of part of his goods. The work of spoliation was subsequently completed by the MacNamaras of Moyriesk, Ballyhannon, and Knoppoge; by Roland Burke of Inge, and by Loghlen MacInerney of Ballykilty.