[Excerpt from "The Siege of Cork in 1690" by Diarmuid O Murchadha, Journal of the 
Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Vol. XCV, No. 254, Jan-Dec 1990.]
[excerpted 18 Dec 2006 by Mark Murphy with special thanks to Monte Murphy]

p. 11-12
Monday, 29 September
At 8 a.m. the South Gate was surrendered to the English and the North Gate to the Danes...
When Marlborough and Scravener entered, the plundering ceased..."A fine ending"...the 
capture of Corck makes up well for Limerick.  After Dublin it is the largest and richest
town in the country" [Wurtemberg]...
It was not so fine an ending for the four to five thousand men of the garrison...The officers
were allowed to wear their swords...at Marlborough's request, Col. Mac Elligott, the Earl of
Clancarty, the Earl of Tyrone,...Major Mac Carthy and Capt. MURPHY were taken on board the
flagship Kent.  The principal officers were lodged in the Tower of London, where Tyrone died
within a few days...