The small coastal settlement of Baltimore, Ireland was sacked by which group of people in 1631?

Baltimore, (locally Dun na Sead, translated as the "Fort of the Jewels") is a village in western County Cork, Ireland. It is the main village in the parish of Rathmore and the Islands, the southernmost parish in Ireland.

The town was depopulated in 1631 in the Sack of Baltimore, a raid by Barbary pirates from either Ottoman Algeria or Morocco. The Barbary pirates from North Africa were led by Dutch captain (and Muslim convert) turned pirate, Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, also known as Murad Reis the Younger.

The attack was quick and unexpected. The villagers (mainly English settlers, but some native Irish too) were put onto ships and forced into slavery. There were, however, different types of slaves: some prisoners were destined to live out their days as galley slaves (a brutal and short life), while many of the younger women would spend long years in the seclusion of the Sultan's harem or within the walls of the Sultan's palace as laborers. Sadly, it is thought that only two or three of the settlers ever saw Ireland again.

Reminders of the incident still exist in the form of pub names around Baltimore, like the "Algiers Inn".