Along with the nearby village of Baltimore in County Cork, the tiny settlement of Crookhaven, on the southern tip of Ireland, was a stronghold of pirates at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Dutch navy, angry at the damage their ships had suffered from this piracy, launched an attack on Crookhaven in 1614, which effectively put an end to its dominance. It was soon overtaken by more advantageous pirate bases on the Barbary coast at Algiers and Tunis.
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