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Four thousand English soldiers surrounded a small stone tower on the Beara Peninsula in June 1602, crushing the last defiant Gaelic stronghold with cannon fire from land and sea. Richard MacGeoghegan and one hundred and forty-three men held the breach for eleven days before surrendering, yet Carew ordered the majority hanged rather than risking another siege. The castle fell not through magical strength but brutal arithmetic, transforming a local harbour defence into a warning that resistance would be answered with total destruction.

Siege of Dunboy is a siege in County Cork, Ireland.