The number 3,500 comes from Captain Charles Montague's Report of the Accident at Armagh, a report dated 16 August 1598. For other contemporaneous reports giving numbers in the range 3,000 to 4,000 see "O Estado Que Nunca Foi: Guerra e a Formação do Estado na Irlanda do Século XVI"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2008.
The number 3,500 comes from Captain Charles Montague's Report of the Accident at Armagh, a report dated 16 August 1598. For other contemporaneous reports giving numbers in the range 3,000 to 4,000 see "O Estado Que Nunca Foi: Guerra e a Formação do Estado na Irlanda do Século XVI"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2008.