The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways and helped them escape

Evidence

But there is only one recorded instance of the killing of Spanish castaways by Irish not directly in English pay, and it aroused general reprobation. Usually the Irish sheltered the Spaniards, supplied their necessities, and, whenever they could, helped them out of the realm. Several hundred Spaniards did so escape, mostly to Scotland. … If one sees, time and again, the same physical types in Connaught and in Galicia, it must be for some other reason. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829
• XREF: connects to: The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways rather than murdering them — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829; The Lord Deputy ordered all Spanish castaways in Ireland killed — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 828; The Spanish lost 44 ships and estimates suggest that between 10,000 to 20,000 people were killed or went missing. — Anglo-Spanish War: How the English Defeated the Spanish Armada (+2 more)

Library Connections

• The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways rather than murdering them #corroborates (0.95) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829
• The Lord Deputy ordered all Spanish castaways in Ireland killed #complicates (0.85) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 828