t down on his lands with her fleet, burning down his town, stealing his cattle, and killing several of his followers.
In 1593, Bingham impounded her ships and arrested Granuaile’s two surviving sons as well as her brother, Donell O’Piper. Granuaile wrote to the Queen of England, protesting this treatment and offering to end her raiding permanently and use her fleet to eliminate
Though Bingham still hounded her, ordering a company of soldiers to follow her on all her voyages, he was fired two years later and it is believed that she returned to her old habits of raiding ships, though there is only a single report of her being caught doing so. The date and circumstances of her death are unknown, but as she reached her mid-to-late sixties, she returned to Rockfleet, where she lived when she was not at sea and most probably where she died.