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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