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 OCTOBER 
 
 A Shoemaker Shot. — Yesterday, at Owenduff, a village situate betweeD 
 Mulrany and Achill, a shoemaker named Charles Moran was fired at and shot, the 
 ball entering his neck. Three men have been arrested on suspicion. — Irish Times, 
 October 4th, 1886. 
 
 Burning of Hay. — A few nights since two stacks of hay, the property of 
 Mr. James Hayes, of Rockbarton, county Limerick, were burnt down, some hay 
 belonging to the Widow Connolly, of Ballycullane, in the same neighbourhood, 
 being also destroyed on the same night. There is no ground for supposing that the 
 destruction of the hay was the work of an incendiarv. — Daily Express, October 
 4th, 18S6. 
 
 Moonlight Outrage. — On Friday night it is reported that the house of a 
 farmer named Williamson, at Hunckscath, near Leap, county Kerry, was entered 
 by a band of men at midnight. A Snider rifle was violently seized from Williamson 
 and carried off. A servant named M'Grace has been arrested in connection with 
 the affair — Daily Express, October 4th, 1SS6. 
 
 Brutal Moonlighting Outrage. — Two Girls Shot. — A moon- 
 light outrage, possessing features of a revolting atrocity and brutality, has been 
 perpetrated near Kingwilliamstown, at Glountinafane, situate midway between 
 Rockchapel, and Brosna, the victims being two young girls named Kate and 
 Bridget Jones, daughters of a respectable farmer named Daniel Jones, better 
 known as Captain. The girls were fired at in their own house by a gang of armed 
 moonlighters at half past seven o'clock this morning. Both young girls are 
 dangerously wounded. Kate, the eldest, was shot over the eye, and she lies in a 
 dying state. She had just returned from a convent in England. Bridget is not so 
 seriously wounded, but her condition is so bad as to cause grave doubts of her 
 recovery. She received a bullet wound in the right arm. The facts gathered are 
 that the moonlighters forced open the door of Jones's dwelling-house, and 
 demanded a gun, which was refused them. The girls came to the door, and were 
 shot. The Kingwilliamstown police were on the spot an hour after, and summoned 
 medical aid. No motive is alleged for the outrage, except the gun being refused 
 The girls were found in a pool of blood, and presented a revolting spectacle. This 
 outrage has created an extraordinary sensation in the locality. — Freeman 'sjonrnal, 
 Oct. 5th, 1S86. 
 
 Attempted Murder. — John Jones, publican and baker, resident in the 
 village, was fired at when returning home from the fair of Scariff. Jones conveyed 
 two policeman on a farm cart from Feakle to Scariff to do duty at the fair and 
 bring them back to their station. He returned about eleven o'clock. Another 
 man named Murphy was on the car with them. When the police got off, Jones 
 continued his journey home, and when passing an open gateway on the road a shot 
 
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 «ras fired at him, but he received no injury whatever. lie was sitting on the side 
 of the car, Murphy occupying a seat behind him. Both distinctly saw the flash and 
 heard the report of the shot, which they considered was discharged from a pistob 
 Inquiries instituted by the County Inspector lead to the belief the cause of the 
 attempt is traceable to a dispute between Jones and a neighbour about some land, 
 together with affording assistance to Emergency men and the constabulary. — 
 Freeman's Journal, October 7th, 1889. 
 
 Moo FLIGHTING IN Ti pperarv. — Between ele\ en and twelve o'clock last night 
 a party of men, armed and disguised, visited the house of a farmer named Robert 
 Kealy, of Longstonc, near Limerick Junctirn. They broke in the windows of the 
 house with sticks and stones, fired three shots in the yard, and put Kealy and his 
 family in terror of their lives. This morning he found a notice posted on his door 
 threatening his brother, who lives with him, with instant death if he dared to take 
 a farm at Ballynagreena, county Limerick, from which a tenant was evicted for 
 nonpayment of rent. — Daily Express, October 8, 1SS6. 
 
 Boycotting in County GALWAY. — Following the recent evictions in the 
 neighbourhood of Woodford, notices have been circulated with the object of putting 
 the° system of boycotting into force against Mr. Lewis, of Ballinager, and 
 Mr. Blake, Crown Solicitor for county Galway. A number of the tenants evicted 
 resided on Mr. Lewis's estate, and Mr. Blake was afterwards obliged, in the 
 discharge of his official duty, to conduct the prosecution in the petty sessions court 
 against the men who resisted the execution of the eviction decrees by the Sheriff's 
 officers. So strong has the feeling since grown against Mr. Blake that the 
 guardians of the Oughterard Union passed a resolution depriving him of his position 
 as legal adviser to their board. In Ballynasloe the feeling also runs high, and to-day 
 the following notice was sent to the shopkeepers in the town who are either well- 
 known "Nationalists," or are supposed to have strong sympathy with the "National- 
 ist" cause. The notice, which was enclosed in an envelope bearing the Ballinasloe 
 postmark, runs thus : — •" Boycott Blake, the perjurer and priest hunter : woe betide 
 the shopkeeper or farmer that gives him a case ! Let him live on the landlords 
 and his Government pay. Boycott any one that does not boycott Blake, Lewis, 
 and the other priest hunter. God save Ireland ! " — Daily Express, October 8, 
 18S6. 
 
 The Moonlight Outrage near Newmarket. — Full particulars were 
 received to-day of the Moonlight outrage which occurred on Thursday night at 
 Glounamuckle, about nine miles from Newmarket. Fitzgerald, the man who was 
 attacked, is a quarryman in the employment of Lord Cork, and was popularly 
 believed to have in his possession a large quantity of blasting powder. It appears 
 also that Fitzgerald not long since, in the discharge of his ordinary functions as 
 <iuarryman, supplied with stones a boycotted man named Patrick M'Auliffe, and 
 this circumstance made Fitzgerald somewhat unpopular in the locality. Fitzgerald 
 was seated with his wife and two children, aged respectively two and four years, 
 near the fire on Thursday night, when the rap came to the door, and voices outside 
 demanded of Fitzgerald to open the door and deliver up his gun. Fitzgerald at 
 once opened the door, but said he had no gun. Four of the raiders then entered 
 the house, and one of them said to Fitzgerald, "Where is the gun you had on last 
 Sunday?" Again Fitzgerald replied that he was not possessed of any gun. 
 He was then asked where was the blasting powder, lie said he had no quarry 
 powder in the house, as it was always kept at the quarry. He was then asked why 
 he had supplied " Paddy Mac" with stones. Fitzgerald's answer not being deemed 
 satisfactory he was pulled out into the yard. He then perceived that the Moon- 
 lighters numbered from eighteen to twenty, all closely disguised. He was imme- • 
 dmtely subjected to a sort of bastinado by the party, each one cudgelling the 
 unfortunate man in turn. One man knocked him down, and another jumped on 
 his prostrate body. After this treatment he was shoved into the house again and 
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of the attack made upon him. They then fired some shots in the house and took 
 their departure. Fitzgerald immediately conveyed information of the affair to the 
 police, who arrested four men named Dennis Sheehy, John O'Callagan, Jeremiah 
 Gcany, and William Herlihy. Fitzgerald has identified the four as being among 
 the party, and they have been remanded to the next Kanturk Petty Sessions. After 
 the prisoners were remanded on Friday the police dte'ded to take them into New- 
 market, but were unable to procure cars, as the owners of cars in the district refused 
 to give their vehicles for such a purpose. The police then telegraphed to Kanturk, 
 and, after several hours' waiting, cars arrived, and the prisoners were taken on to 
 Kanturk. Owing to the boycotting, it was ten o'clock on Friday night before 
 Kanturk was reached. The prisoners were kept during the night in Kanturk, and 
 to-day (Saturday) they were taken on to Mallow, where they will remain until 
 Monday, when they will again be brought before the magistrates. — Dady Express, 
 October nth, 18S6. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — This morning a daring raid for arms was made at the house 
 of Mr. Baker, an army pensioner, who lives at Oakpark, about a mile and a half 
 from this town. About nine o'ciock a party of four men, disguised by having 
 handkerchiefs tied over their faces, entered the house and demanded the possession 
 of a rifle which, they said, they were informed Mr. I aker had in the house. They 
 were told there were no arms there, but not satisfied with the reply, they ransacked 
 the house, and broke open a locked box in one of the rooms. Theii se..rch bore 
 out the assurance they ot first received, that there were no arms in the house, and 
 they left without any further hostile display. Only two of the party were armed. 
 Four arrests. Irish, Times, October 12th, 1SS6. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — At five o'clock last evening, the house of a farmer named 
 Horan, who lives about a mile and a half from Cast eisland, was raided I y a party 
 of armed and disguised moon! ightcis. They demanded arms and carried away a 
 revolver, which was the only wenpon they found on the premises. No arrests. — 
 Irish 7imes, October 12th, 1SS6. 
 
 Raiding for Arms — Cattle Liftin ;. — On Satmrday night, about nine 
 o'clock, a raid was made on an evicted farm at Knocknagoshel, I elonging to Miss, 
 Lucy Thompson, of Fenit, and a valuable heifer taken away. Shortly afterwards, 
 when a patrol from the Knocknagoshel station was parsing ly the place their 
 attention was attracted by men speaking a short distance away. They succeeded 
 in catching one, whom they made a prisoner. ( 'n going 1 ack to the place where 
 the men where at first observed by the patrol the carcase of a heifer wa found, the 
 place being full of blood and much trampled, showing that the animal was quite 
 recently kil ed. The men were eng ged skinning the dead heifer, and had nbout 
 half succeeded when they were discovered by the police. It appears a butcher's 
 knife was also found quite convenient to the taaase. Quite a number of cattle 
 have been in this manner destroyed belo gi g to Miss Thompson. A comlinalion 
 seems to exist in these di-tricts to prevent the lady from worki g larms, all of which 
 she was compelled to take ov. r on her own h nds because the tenants refused to 
 pay her any rent. — Daily Express, October I2th, 1SS6. 
 
 Moonlight. — On Saturday night last, between the hours of 7 and 8 o'clock, 
 a moonlighting outrage occurred at a place called Lowtown, in this county, and 
 distant about six miles from Mullingar. It would seem that a party of men with 
 their faces blackened and possessed of firearms, called at the houses of two 
 respectable farmers named Thomas and James Flynn, and demanded whatever 
 firearms were in the house. Having got what tiny desired, they went away 
 without in any other way molesting the two men. No arre-ts. — Fict7iian''sJournal 1 
 October, 15th, 1886. 
 
 Skrious Affray. — Last week a farmer named Ryan and his brother, who 
 had been boycotted, allege that while going home from Clonmel they were attacked 
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 skull fractured, while Daniel Long was beaten so seriously that little hope is 
 entertained of his recovery. — Freeman's Journal, October i8th, 1S86. 
 
 Moonlighting Extraordinary. — Information has reached hereof a most 
 extraordinary case of moonlighting. It appears that a farmer named Maurice 
 Walsh, residing near Colligan, on the property of the Earl of Dartrey, became 
 indebted to two other farmers, named Cunningham and Power, for a considerable 
 sum of money, whieh was secured by a bill of sale on his cattle, crops, and furniture. 
 A few days ago Cunningham and Power took possession of the property under the 
 bill of sale, and called an auction, which came off a short time since. Two men, 
 named Wyse and Wright, were engaged by some of the purchasers to remove pro- 
 perty purchased at the auction. Last night Wyse rushed into the police barracks at 
 Dungarven in a very excited condition and covered over with mud. He stated that 
 himself and the other man (Wright) had been engaged by Mr. J. W. Shaw (late 
 Bridewell-keeper), to remove some furniture which he had purchased at Walsh's 
 auction ; that they loaded the furniture on a cart and were driving with it into 
 Dungarven, when about three miles from the town four men wearing slouched hats 
 pulled down over their faces jumped over the ditch on the side of the road and 
 attacked them with sticks, knocking them down on the roadway. The men then 
 took knives from their pockets, cut the tackling of the cart, and overturned the load 
 of furniture in the dyke. Wyse succeeded in crawling to the side of the ditch in the 
 darkness and getting hi to Dungarven, where he related those facts to the police. 
 No arrests. Two days bofore the auction Walsh was served with a writ for two 
 and a half years' rent by the Earl. — Irish Times, October 22nd, 1SS6. 
 
 NOVEMBER. 
 
 Attempted Murder of Landlord. — Details have been received of the 
 attempt on the life of Mr. Michael Roche Kelly, J. P., Eirgrove, on Saturday 
 evening. Mr. Kelly had been in Ennis that day attending the hearing of spirit 
 license appeals in which he was personally interested. He left town a little after 
 3 o'clock p.m. on a side car, which he drove himself, while his servant man sat on 
 the opposite side. Eirgrove is on the old mail coach road to Limerick, and when 
 they had reached Culleen, which is midway between Newmarket and Bunratty, and 
 within a mile and a half of his residence, two shots were fired at him from an old 
 "rath" a short distance from the road. The mound is surrounded by whitethorn 
 bushes. The first shot took effect. One large slug entered near the shoulder-blade. 
 The second shot was fired in quick succession to the first, but the horse having 
 dashed off in fright Mr. Kelly must have been out of range when the second shot 
 w r as fired. His hat fell off and the horse ran about fifty yards before-he could pull 
 him up. Mr. Kelly is agent to his brother, Mr. John Kelly, Islandmore, J. P., 
 D. L., County Limerick. Mr. Kelly has been subjected to most rigorous boycotting. 
 Two publicans in the neighbourhood, named Brennan and Helier, who also sell 
 provisions, and with whom he has been dealing for years, refused to supply him or 
 his workmen with any necessaries. Six arrests, but four men subsequently dis- 
 charged. — Irish Time's, November and, 1SS6. 
 
 Moonlighting Raid. — On last night a moonlighting party of eight men 
 visited the house of James Stack, Listellick, and demanded his gun. Mr. 
 Stack gave up the gun peaceably, and the party left. All were armed, but it is 
 stated that only one was disguised. No arrests. — Freeman's Journal, Nov. 3rd, 
 1886. 
 
 Malicious Burning o" a Fi.ax Milt, • — At about half-past one o'clock 
 this morning it was reported at the constabulary barrack at Eorkhill, which is situate 
 rb^ut seven miles from this town, and where several most atrocious murders and 
 outrages have been perpetrated during the pa^-t five years, that the large scutch mill 
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on fire. Several of the police under command of Sergeant Coyle at once proceeded 
 to the scene of the conflagration, and found the mill in flames. There was a veiy 
 large quantity of flax stored in the mill, and it is estimated that the damage done wiil 
 amount * .^upwards of ^500 
 
 Mr. Davies, District Inspector of Constabulary, Newry, visited the scene of the 
 conflagration. The fire is believed to be malicious, Mr. Wright having been boy- 
 cotted some time since by the National League. Another theoiy is that the mill, 
 which was the most complete of its kind in the neighbourhood, was attracting so 
 much custom that it was set on fire by some one who was envious of the success of 
 its proprietor, who is a Protestant. 
 
 A claim for malicious damages will be lodged at once. — Irish Times, 
 November 4th, 18S6. 
 
 Boycotting in Tippkrary. — A meeting of the Thurles branch of the 
 National League was held yesterday. The Rev. Thomas O'Dwyer, who presided, 
 congratulated Mr. Bolton, who was before the magistrates last Saturday, on his 
 being acquitted of the charge of boycotting and intimidation. It was resolved that 
 they should call upon the independent farmers and shopkeepers of Thurles and 
 surrounding districts to withdraw their support from those attorneys who are openly 
 hostile to the National cause and to the interests of the tenant farmers. A Mem- 
 ber — Why not begin with the Town Commissioners of Thurles, who are notorious 
 supporters of this anti-National attorney ? The meeting next considered the 
 decision given by the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions in the case of Emergency 
 man Power v James Booth, publican. Power felt aggrieved because Booth charged 
 him at the rate of one shilling per glass for brandy, and he processed Mr. Booth 
 for fifteen pence, which he alleged Mr. Booth overcharged him. The Chairman, 
 Mr. Wall, Q.C. , granted a decree for elevenpence. Mr. Nolan at once lodged an 
 appeal, but Mr. Booth threw him and the National League overboard, and paid 
 the amount of the decree and costs. The meeting unanimously decided to return 
 him his subscription, and to erase his name from the roll of the members of the 
 League. — Daily Express, November 5th, 1886. 
 
 Malicious Injuries. — Another instance of intimidation adopted by some 
 of the branches of the National League in Kerry was painfully illustrated at the 
 presentment sessions here to day. Murty Buckley applied for £\o compensation 
 for the malicious killing of one heifer, and the malicious injury to another heifer 
 by having its tail cut off, at Shrone, near Fines, on the night of Wednesday, the 
 14th of June last. Mr. Louis Cronin, solicitor for the applicant, read from tha 
 Kerry Sentinel a summarised report of the fortnightly meeting of the Baliybar 
 branch of the National League, held a few weeks previous to the perpetration of 
 the above outrages, in which a resolution was adopted, "Condemning in the 
 strongest manner the statement of Murty Buckley by saying that he had surrendered 
 the evicted farm held by him from The Magillicuddy, and which he stiil holds with 
 an iron grasp, and that the members of this branch strongly recommend persons in 
 the parish to have no intercourse with him." Mr. Coetsman, J. P., the chairman, 
 isked the applicant if he were a member of the Baliybar branch of the League. 
 The applicant replied in the negative, but said he was a member of the Milltown 
 branch. The Baliybar branch, of which the Rev. P. O'Connor, P.P. of Eiries, 
 was president, is within a few miles of the applicant's residence. He had built a 
 cow house for his cattle, but it was burned on two successive occasions previous to 
 these outrages. The justices and the cesspayers had no doubt that malice was the 
 cause of the outrages, and allowed the applicant a sum of £S. In the application 
 for compensation made by Father Shanahan for the wrecking of the National 
 schoolhouse, Mr. Coltsman stated that the outrage was another melancholy instance 
 of the state of affairs in Kerry, where a public institution, got up for the benefit ot 
 the community, should be wrecked in the manner described by Father Shanahan. 
 The total amount of compensation applied for for the malicious injuries committed 
 in the barony was close on ,£350. — Daily Express, Nov. 5th, 18S6. 
 
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 Boycotting Outrage.— Mr. J. M. Dowley, J.P., accompanied by Head- 
 constable O'Keefe, with Mr. O'Grady England, Petty Sessions Clerk, atte'nded at 
 the Tipperary Infirmary last evening to take the depositions of a man named 
 Michael Cunningham, who was brutally beaten the other night in the main street, 
 Tipperary, when returning home from his work. Cunningham, it is alleged, 
 expressed sympathy with a lady in town who has been boycotted on account of her 
 hiving evicted some persons here. Together with this he was observed on more 
 than one occasion talking to this lady's son, and, it is stated, got previous warning 
 lo avoid such association. In his depositions he disclosed the names of two men 
 who, he stated, attacked him. After the deposition had been taken, Sergeant 
 Colbeton with a party of police, and the head-constable with another party, visited 
 the respective residences of the alleged assailants, but the birds had flown. — 
 Daily Express, November 5th, 18S6. 
 
 Moonlighters Levying Blackmail. — An account of another attack by 
 Moonlighters for blackmail in the neighbourhood of Castleisland has reached 
 Killarney. As a small farmer and his son, named Mangan, residing at Coolick, 
 about four miles from Killarney, were returning from the fair of Castleisland, they 
 were met on the road near the cross of Lisheenbawn, which is adjacent to the scene 
 of the murder of Mr. A. E. Herbert, J. P., by about six men disguised, and two of 
 whom were armed (one of the latter presented a revolver at old Mangan), and said 
 to him, "Your money, or your life. " Mangan handed ten shillings in silver and 
 one ounce of tobacco, and stated that was all he was worth. They commenced to 
 search his pockets. In the meantime young Mangan managed to steal away from 
 the raiders. The search of old Mangan's pockets resulted in the finding of no more 
 money, and the raiders then proceeded to look after young Mangan, but they found 
 that he was missing. The raiders then left, and Mangan and his son joined each 
 other, when the latter informed the father that the £\o which he had in his pocket, 
 and which was the price of a cow sold at the fair that day, was safe. No arrests. 
 ■ — Daily Express, November Sth, 1 SS6. 
 
 Boycotting. — At the Ballinasloe Petty Sessions to-day James Beirne and 
 Michael Beirne, father and son, were charged with having used language calculated 
 to intimidate Patrick Small from purchasing cattle at the fair of Cappataggle. It 
 appeared from the evidence that Small took a farm at Aughrim from Mr. Wade, 
 through the agent, Mr. St. George, on the 16th of October, from which James 
 Beirne had been evicted for nonpayment of rent, there being ^20 due. Small 
 attended the fair of Cappataggle for the purpose of buying cattle to stock the farm. 
 The defendant followed him everywhere he went, and told the people not to sell 
 their cattle to him, as he was boycotted. Michael Beirne said to him he would 
 buy no cattle there for his boycotted farm. The consequence of this was that 
 Small had to get police protection in the fair, and no one would sell him cattle, 
 and he lost his fair. Since then he has been subject to great annoyance, and the 
 next day the Beirne's assaulted him. 
 
 A number of witnesses having been examined, Michael Beirne was sent to 
 gaol, without the option of a fine, foi two months with hard labour, and James 
 Beirne, on account of his age, was let off with a fine of ^3. — Daily Express, 
 November Sth 1886. 
 
 A Bailiff's House Pulled Down. — A serious outrage has been perpetrated 
 at Kinvara, in County Galway From particulars to hand it appears that a crowd 
 of people surrounded the house of John Bermingham, abaliffover several estates, 
 and who has been employed serving processes for rents, and pulled it down. The 
 house, a pretty substantial one, was levelled to the ground. Not content with 
 leaving Bermingham without a shelter, the marauders turned their attentions to 
 some hay, which they scattered over the ground and destroyed. Bermingham has 
 y;rved the usual notice that he will apply for compensation at the next session.— • 
 Irish 1 imes, November nth, 1S86. 
 
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Moonlight Raid. — A great raid by armed moonlighters took place last 
 night and early this morning around Durra, six miles distant from Ennis, on the 
 property of Mr. Pierce O'Brien, J. P., near to whose residence there is a police 
 protection hut. As officially reported, the band of moonlighters was strong in 
 number, a dozen remaining outside each house. There were only five or six witlr 
 faces blackened and their coats turned entered within the places visited. These 
 were the dwellings of Patrick Woods and Cornelius Kinneally, herdsmen oi 
 Mr. O'Brien, and Michael llaivey and Michael Ryan, bog-rangers in his employ- 
 ment. A prejudice, it is said, existed against these men for serving at all under 
 Mr. O'Brien. The first house attacked was that of Woods. At half-past six 
 o'clock five men disguised as stated entered, each displaying a revolver. They 
 dragged him from the fire, placed him on his knees, put a prayer-book in his hand, 
 and compelled him to swear he would leave Mr. O'Brien's employment, or not 
 drive cattle of his to Clair fair subsequently from that time at 2 o'clock in the 
 morning. The houses of Kinneally, Halvey, and Ryan were then visited, and the 
 same intimidation enforced. Determined caution was given that no report of what 
 had occurred should be made to the police, as any one seen leaving their houses 
 would be shot. The caution was observed. No arrests. — Freeman's Journal y 
 Nov. 1 2th, 1886. 
 
 Boycotting Extraordinary. — The following extraordinary facts came 
 out before the Recorder of Cork on a process in which Dennis Lane was plaintiff, 
 and Timothy Daniel and Timothy Twomy, jun., were defendants. The plaintiff 
 sued the defendants, who were blacksmiths, for damages for breach of contract, in 
 not doing certain smith work which they had undertaken to do in lieu of rent for a 
 forge held by them from plaintiff. The defendants alleged that they were willing 
 and anxious to do plaintiff's work, but that they dare not as he was boycotted 
 by the local Land League. The circumstances under which he was boycotted 
 were deposed to by him in open court. He himself was a member of the Land 
 League, and he was boycotted for speaking to his cousin, who was boycotted 
 because he took some grazing near the City of Cork, which was let under the 
 Court of Chancery, and for which three other rnembeis of the same local league 
 had sent in proposals. These proposals were produced and handed up to the 
 bench. The plaintiff proved that no other blacksmith in the neighbourhood dare 
 shoe his horses, and he was obliged to send them into the City of Cork. He 
 refused to disclose the name of the smith who shod them there lest he also should 
 be boycotted. An application was made to the court that the damages should be 
 made payable by easy instalments, which was refused on the ground that any such 
 indulgence would be only an encouragement to the practice of boycotting, the 
 Recorder observing that the state of things resembled that of the middle ages, in 
 which the only refuge for liberty was in the towns. — Irish Times, November 15th, 
 i886. 
 
 Robbery of Cattle. — A few nights since a heifer, value for about £\2 y 
 which with several other cattle were grazing on an evicted farm at Knockamulla, 
 near Fines, and which is portion of the Kenmare estate, was stolen, and has not 
 since been heard of. The object of the robbery has been attributed to the fact that 
 the farm has been derelict for the past two years. Efforts on the part of the Earl of 
 Kenmare's employes were made to trace either the beast or any portion of it, but 
 without success, as the perpetrators of the robbery had, it would appear, taken pre- 
 cautions of impending compensation being obtained for the beast or any part of it 
 being found. — Freeman's Journal, November 15th, 1SS6. 
 
 Firing at Caretakers. — A man named Regan was returned for trial 
 to-day at Coachford Petty Sessions on a charge of shooting at two Emergencymen 
 and a police escort on the night of November the 1st. The Emergencymen were 
 in charge of an evicted farm under police protection, and on the night in question 
 they and two policemen gave chase to some persons who were shouting and 
 threatening at them. In the pursuit one of the fugitives turned around and fired. 
 He was followed and captured, and found to be the prisoner. No arms were 
 found on him. Bail was refused. — Daily Express, November 16th, 18S6. 
 
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 Outrages in County Monaghan. — At the presentment sessions held at 
 Castlebayney yesterday for the barony of Cremorne, the following applications for 
 compensation for malicious injuries were disposed of. Thomas Duffy applied for 
 compensation for loss sustained by him by the malicious maining of three head 
 of cattle. It appeared from the evidence that the applicant had been threatened for 
 working for a widow named Anne Duffy. He had cattle grazing on an out-farm. 
 On ioth June he was informed that the tails had been cut off three of them. He 
 went to the farm and found that the tails had been completely cut off two heifers and 
 a bullock. He sold the three head of cattle la: t month for £"] 15s. The court 
 awarded ,£11. — Daily Express, November 17th, 1886. 
 
 Moonlight Outrage near Rathkeale. — A Moonlight outrage is re- 
 ported to have been perpetrated at Eallinamona, county Limerick, on Thursday 
 night. A party of armed and disguised men visited the house of James Hickey, 
 residing at the place mentioned, fired a shot through the window, and cautioned 
 Hickey, under pain of another "visit," not to cut hay for some ladies in the district 
 who evidently were to them an object of ill-favour. On leaving the premises the 
 party fired some shots in the yard. No one appears to have been injured. Up to 
 the present the marauders have escaped the vigilance of the police. — Daily Express, 
 November 22nd, 18S6. 
 
 Daring Raid for Arms. — The dwelling of a man named Sulivan was 
 forcibly entered on last Sunday morning, at the early hour of seven o'clock, by a 
 fully armed and disguised band, who having ransacked the house, got possession of 
 some cartridges. This is the same man who, about two years ago, was visited by 
 a revolver and another Moonlight gang, and shot in the hand. Sullivan lives at a 
 place called Ballinorig, about a mile to the south of the village of Causeway, and his 
 occupation is that of bailiff and bog ranger on this portion of the property of Mr. 
 John White Leahy, of Killarney. Since the original attack on his house Sullivan 
 got this revolver from the authorities for his personal protection, and it was well 
 iknown he had that weapon. — Daily Express, November 24th, 1SS6. 
 
 A Fight with Armed Moonlighters. — Intelligence was received here this 
 morning that a serious moonlighting affray took place last night about two miles from 
 Castleisland, on the Tralee side. Four constables on patrol were fired upon by a 
 party of moonlighters behind a fence on the roadside. The police returned the 
 fire, both parties being behind shelter. The police afterwards made a dash captur- 
 ing nine men, five others escaping. All were armed. The Moonlighters, when 
 called upon by the patrol, made no reply, but fired at the police, and a serious 
 encounter ensued. Two revolvers and canisters of ammunition were afterwards 
 found. — Daily Express, November 25th, 1SS6. 
 
 Police Patrol Fired On. — At seven o'clock this evening a police patrol 
 was fired at in the centre of the town. Several men have been arrested on sus- 
 picion. — Daily Express, November 27th. 
 
 DECEMBER. 
 
 Assault on a Servant. — A few days ago a man named John Vaughan was 
 seriously assaulted at Rochestown, near Ballyneety. Vaughan, it appears, has 
 been some time in the employment of Mr. M. Roche Kelley, of Firgrove, who was 
 fired at and wounded recently near Bunratty, and it is stated that Vaughan, while 
 on Mr. Kelley's land, was stopped by four men, who after asking him why he 
 worked for Mr. Kelley struck him several blows on the head with sticks and left 
 him insensible. He was found in this condition and brought to Dr. Hartigan, of 
 Croom, who found his skull fractured, and several other wounds about his head of 
 a very dangerous nature. The police subsequently arrested five men named 
 Michael Kennedy, John and Thomas Henchy, and William and Michael Regur on 
 suspicion of being concerned in the assault. They will be brought before Vaughan 
 for identification as soon as he has sufficiently recovered. — Ereeman's Journal, 
 December 3rd, 1SS6. 
 
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 Raid for Arms. — A moonlighting raid is reported to have occurred in the 
 parish of Ashford, county Limerick, last night about ten o'clock. The party were 
 disguised and armed, and numbered about fifteen. They visited the house of 
 Bartholomew Brennan , farmer from whom they took a gun. They obtained the 
 gun of John O'Mahoney, farmer and schoolmaster, as also a revolver from 
 Mr. Edmond Winter. The moonlighters met with no resistance, the weapons 
 being delivered up by the respective owners. No arrests. — Daily Express, Dec. 7th, 
 1SS6. 
 
 Moonlight Outrage. — On Thursday night the house of a labouring man 
 named Mullins, living near Carahon, was forcibly entered about half-past seven 
 o'clock, by three armed men disguised, who cried out " Heads down," and at once 
 commenced to belabour him with sticks, from which he received serious injuries. 
 The reason assigned for the outrage is that Mullins got evidence against another 
 man named O'Donoghue, who had been in the employment of Mr. George Perry, 
 Ballyvergent, who had been summoned by that gentleman to give up possession of 
 a house. Three young men of the labouring class were arrested next morning, and 
 their names are Michael O'Donoghue (son of the litigant), Thos. O'Donnell, and 
 John Higgins, and they were brought before Mr. Arthur Gethin Creagh, Carahon, 
 and remanded for a week. — Daily Express, December 13th, 18S6. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — During Divine service on Sunday, six men, armed with 
 revolvers, visited Tubbermore House, the residence of Mr. Jeremiah Roche, and 
 demanded arms. Mr. Scott, engineer, and Miss Roche, who were the only 
 persons in at the time, assured them there were no arms in the house. Not 
 satisfied they searched the whole house, and having found none they went off, 
 giving as little annoyance as possible. Nine boys were arrested and brought before 
 Mr. Scott, who failed to identify any of them. 
 
 Agrarian Outrage. — While a gamekeeper of Mr. Hutchinson Massey's, 
 named Lucy, was yesterday attending Mass in Carriganima, Iris house, which is 
 situated at Musher Mountain, a distance of about four miles off, was forcibly 
 entered by three disguised men and pillaged of anything valuable it contained. 
 Lucy has been under police protection for the past two years, and is not, as may be 
 supposed, popular in the neighbourhood. — Freeman } s Journal, Dec. 14th, 1SS6. 
 
 Murderous Outrage. — Last night a daring and murderous attack was 
 made on Thomas Cahill, a herdsman in the employment of Mr. Coroner Sheehey, 
 of Shannon Grove, near Pallaskenry. About 10 o'clock Cahill, with a lamp in 
 his hand, was about to enter the house from the yard, the two other servants, a 
 boy named Keefe and a man named Sheehy, having gone to attend the cattle, 
 when two men armed with sticks like pitchforks, rushed at him. The lamp was 
 dashed out of his hand by a blow, which also ripped up the nail of his finger. He 
 was next struck on the head and knocked down, and, while down, was struck 
 several times. Being a strong, athletic man, he managed to regain his feet, and 
 was turning the tables on his antagonists, when one of tiiem produced a revolver, 
 or pistol, and fired at him, but Cahill, by quickly ducking his head, escaped the 
 contents, which riddled the wall behind. The assailants then made off. Keefe 
 was so frightened at the shouting and noise of firearms that he fled to his home ir 
 terror, and Sheehy ran into the house. Coroner Sheehy was away at the time. 
 No arrests have been made in connexion with the outrage, which is attributed to 
 the zeal of Cahill in preventing larceny of wood blown down by the storm. 
 District Inspector Jennings drove from Limerick to the scene to-day, and inquired 
 into the circumstance. Cahill is in a veiy serious condition. — Daily Express, 
 Dec, 14th, 1SS6. 
 
 Attempted Murder. — On Saturday night a man named Laffin, residing 
 at Woodford, near Cahirconlish, was fired at but he also fortunately escaped. 
 His alleged assailant has been arrested. — Daily Exp) ess, Dec. 14th, 1SS6. 
 
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 Attempted Murder. — A man named Patrick Whelan was arrested 
 yesterday, on suspicion of being concerned in the alleged attack upon a farmer 
 named Michael Laffin, at Brittas Bridge, near Murroe, on last Saturday night. It is 
 reported that Laffin, while on his way home was fired at from behind a wall, but 
 fortunately escaped injury. The cause of the attempt upon his life is as yet 
 unknown, but Whelan who was brought before Mr. J. B. Irwin, R.M., has been 
 remanded for eight days. — Ft eetnari s Journal, December 15th, 18S6. 
 
 Moonlight Raids. — Two Moonlight outrages were committed in the 
 district of Kanturk on Wednesday night. In one raid a revolver and a gun were 
 taken, and in the other twelve houses were visited and arms secured. — Daily 
 Express; December 17th, 1SS6. 
 
 Affray with Moonlighters. — On Saturday night Mr. James Goggin, 
 farmer and head gamekeeper to Mr. Crosbie, of Ardfert Abbey, on reaching his 
 home at Ballinprior, twelve miles from Tralee, found the house in possession of a 
 gang of Moonlighters. Goggin, who was accompanied by his wife in his gig, 
 escaped unhurt, although two shots were fired after him. Three policemen who 
 were on patrol duty subsequently encountered the gang, who sought shelter in a- 
 ditch, and from this position discharged about twenty shots at the police. A con- 
 stable named Fitzgerald fell wounded in the leg. The Moonlighters then made 
 off, but during the night several arrests were made. The prisoners were, however, 
 all discharged. The 'rounded constable is progressing favourably. In an inter- 
 view with Mr. Goggin to-day, he stated that he has expected this attack for the last 
 six years, but the parties would not come near the house if they knew he was at 
 home. He does not know whether they wanted to kill him or take his gun on 
 this occasion. He trusted no man in the district outside of the constabulary, and 
 used always leave them his gun and guncase when he left home. He heard about 
 twenty or thirty shots between the police and the moonlighters. — Irish Times, 
 Dec. 20th, 1SS6. 
 
 Assaults on Bailiffs. — The organized opposition to the service of civil. 
 bills in this (King's) county was further developed on Saturday after the attacks 
 on Friday. On Saturday Daniel Quin, the only officer who was found hardy 
 enough to do his duty, was engaged in the Ballycumber district serving civil bills 
 for shop debts, and when his mission became known the chapel bell was rung, a 
 mob collected, his return journey was blocked with stone walls built across the- 
 road, and he himself furiously attacked with stones. The carman who drove Quin 
 endeavoured to clear a passage for his car, and Quin meanwhile had to take shelter 
 under the car, the stones raining down on the vehicle so that the well of the car 
 was fairly loaded with them when they returned. Quin, who is a feeble old man, 
 sustained several severe wounds, but ultimately escaped with his life. Two arrests- 
 were made. It is a singular coincidence that the three distinct attacks on process- 
 servers took place in various portions of a parish which is presided over by a 
 Father Browne, a clergyman, who on a former occasion headed a mob in opposi- 
 tion to the Sheriff's bailiffs, and who has at all times taken an active part in the 
 League agitation. — Daily Express, December 2 1st, 1SS6. 
 
 Malicious Burning. — At Pallaskemy Presentment Sessions to-day, Mr. 
 William Walker, D. L-., ex-High Sheriff, applied for ^800 compensation for the 
 malicious burning of his residence at Castlegrey, near Stonehall, in October last, 
 the outrage being of an agrarian character. The house had been unoccupied three 
 months prior to burning. A handsome thatch porch was found on fire and the 
 flames spreading quickly to the rest of the mansion it was despite all efforts to save 
 it consumed. There having been no fire lighted in the house no doubt was enter- 
 tained as to malice, and evidence as to value being given by Mr. Slade, C.E., on 
 behalf of the applicant, the reduced sum claimed .£415 was passed unanimously — 
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 Moonlighting Raid. — At two o'clock this afternoon three armed men 
 entered the house of a man named Teahan, some three miles from Killarney. On 
 his offering resistance they struck him with their revolvers, severely cutting his 
 forehead. They ransacked the house for papers, as they alleged. After remain- 
 ing about two hours they decamped. A police hut is erected about half a mile 
 from the house, but Teahan was prevented from sending for help. No arrest has 
 been made up to this evening. Teahan had no arms. — Freeman 's yoiirnal, 
 December 29th, 1886. 
 
 Shocking Murder. — A shocking and brutal murder was committed last 
 night, or early ihis morning, at Solohead, within one mile from Limerick 
 Junction. The victim is a young man of the labouring class, named James 
 Wilson, and the instrument used was the knife. He was not stabbed but literally 
 butchered. Deceased, who was 25 years of age, of powerful build, and nearly 
 six feet in height, was in the employment of a farmer named Crawford, residing 
 at Solohead. Yesterday he attended the funeral of a neighbour, and was seen, it 
 is stated, returning home last evening apparently sober. This morning, between 
 9 and 10 o'clock, a fanner named M'Cormack was driving his cattle along the 
 road when he perceived a man's hat, and about ten yards beyond it in the dyke, 
 sitting up against the ditch was the dead body of Wilson, who he at once 
 recognised. Deceased was sitting in a pool of blood. About ten yards from the 
 body on the road at the Limerick Junction side there was blood. About twenty 
 yards from where deceased lay there is a farmer's house on one side of the road, 
 and another house about thirty yards on the other side. The road is a by one off 
 the main Salohead road, and where the murdered man lay is not more than 500 
 yards from the parish priest's house. Deceased is a widow's son, and the sole 
 ■support of his mother. — Irish Times, Dec. 29th, 1S86. 
 
 Extraordinary Moonlight Outrage. — A moonlight outrage of an 
 extraordinary nature is reported from Freemount. Two houses were visited by the 
 moonlight gang but this arose from ignorance of the locality, and the object of the 
 marauders was evidently to intimidate a man named Michael King, with the view of 
 compelling him to surrender a farm which, it was alleged, he had grabbed, but which, 
 in reality, he was left by his father under a legal deed. A band of fifteen men, 
 armed and wearing disguises, visited the locality. The first entered the house of 
 King's cousin, a person of the same name, but finding he was not the object of their 
 search they compelled him to accompany them to the right place. They entered 
 King's house. The latter and his son offered resistance, and the marauders set 
 upon them and beat them for over half-amhour. A serious struggle took place 
 between King and his son and the moonlighters, and King was badly injured. He 
 was taken from his own house to the farm in dispute, and he was there compelled 
 to go on his knees and swear he Mould give it up. Shots were fired, and the 
 cousin was brought hither as a witness of the proceedings, during which an under- 
 taking was extorted from King that he would give up possession. The marauders 
 -were not known either to King or his cousin, and the supposition is they were 
 1 'fought from a distance. — Irish Times, December 28th, 1SS6. 
 
 Moonlighting. — Last night a dating case of moonlighting occurred in the 
 Kildysart district. From the facts it appears that a farmer named Thomas Larry, 
 of Lack, with his wife and four children were on the eve of retiring to rest for the 
 night, when suddenly four shots in succession were fired through the window, the 
 contents having effect luckily in a dresser with earthenware that stood opposite the 
 window. Barry and his family were seated at the kitchen fire at the time, and 
 wishing to learn something as to the identity of the miscreants repaired to a garret 
 window in the upper portion of his house, and saw fleeing from the scene six men 
 armed with guns, and disguised in sailors' dress. In a more remote part of the 
 farm the uLder agent — a man named O'Keeffe — resides, and here the moonlighters 
 fired six shots through his window, which, however, were attended with no injury. 
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 law proceedings against his mother-in-law for the possession of a few acres of land, 
 and in which action he was successful, having had in the suit the support of the 
 ibalirT O'Keeffe mentioned above. — Irish Time:, December 25th, 18S6. 
 
 Murder. — Intelligence has reached the constabulary authorities in this town 
 of a murder, the vietim being a respectable carowner named James Birney. The 
 crime was committed between the town of Cootehill and Rockcurry on Tuesday 
 night last, between the hours of IO and 11 o'clock. The murdered man was re- 
 turning home from Monaghan after leaving a lunatic in the asylum in that town in 
 company with two members of the Constabulary who escorted the lunatic, and 
 having left them at their station he drove his car on his way home. When within 
 three miles of his destination he was attacked by a number of men who pulled him 
 off his car and brutally murdered him on the public road and then threw him into 
 an old cesspool. The only cause that can be assigned for this shocking murder is 
 that some time ago Birney took a farm that a tenant was evicted from for non- 
 payment of rent. — Freeman's Journal, December 31st, 1886. 
 
 1887. 
 
 JANUARY. 
 
 Malicious Burning. — Late on Saturday night or early yesterday morning a 
 rick of hay containing abour 25 tons, the property of a tenant farmer named 
 Denis Anderson, residing at Moanmoie, near Limerick Junction, was maliciously 
 set fire to, and wholly destroyed. — Daily Express, Jan. 3rd, 1SS6. 
 
 Attack on a Resident Magistrate.— An extraordinary scene occurred 
 at Charlestown, county Mayo, on Saturday. The Plan of Campaign having been 
 adopted by the tenants on the property of Lord Dillon, situate in the district, and 
 Saturday being the last day for serving processes for the ensuing quarter sessions, 
 the tenants and their friends were on the alert, and prepared to give the process- 
 server a warm reception should he turn up. Being a holiday, a large body of the 
 tenants were assembled in Charlestown. In the evening, Major Neild, R. M. , in 
 company with three policemen, drove into town, and a cry was immediately raised 
 that the process-server had airived. Major Xeild and his companions were in- 
 stantly set upon. The horse was knocked down, the policemen were driven off, 
 and Major Neild was being badly beaten, when, happily, the Rev. Father Loftus. 
 happening to be about the place, rushed to his rescue, and delivered the supposed 
 process-server from the hands of his infuriated assailants. While the unfortunate 
 gentleman was being dealt with by one section of the crowd another body of the 
 men seized his bag, which, it was thought, contained the processes, tore it open, 
 and were proceeding to destroy its contents, when it was discovered that, instead 
 of being writs, the papers were simply official documents. The bag was then 
 returned to its owner. No arrests have been made. — Freeman' 's Joiirr.sf, 
 January 4th, 1SS7. 
 
 Judge Curran on the state of Kerry.— Mr. John A. Cm-ran, 
 addressing the grand jury on Monday at Killarney, said he had before him a list ot 
 the offences committed, or rather reported, for the quarter ending the 31st of 
 December in the entire county. He was not referring to the Killarney division of 
 the county, but the entire county. There were four cases of firing at persons, one 
 of firing into a dwelling-house, one of manslaughter, four of assaults injurious to 
 life, one aggravated assault, one assault and robbery, two cases of highway robbery, 
 two cases of burglary, one case of housebreaking and robbery, one case of wounding 
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 cases of threatening letters, six cases of intimidation, three cases of malicious injury 
 to property, four cases of cattle stealing, one case of sheep stealing,, three cases of 
 rescue, one case of being armed, seven cases of killing or maiming cattle. Freeman' s 
 Journal, January 5th, 1S87. 
 
 Serious Outrages. — A serious case of firing at is reported from Castle- 
 island. A shopkeeper named James Lyons from that town has a farm at Knockeem, 
 about two miles from Castleisland, and yesterday he visited the place. As he was 
 passing through one of the fields he was fired at by some persons from behind a 
 hedge, and the bullet passed through his hat. The assailants ran off, and could 
 not be identified by Lyons. The outrage was of an agrarian character. Lyons 
 got possession of the farm from his brother-in-law in lieu of a debt, and efforts 
 have recently been made on the part of the brother-in-law's family to redeem the 
 holding. It is probably expected that the firing at Lyons, who has been regarded 
 as a popular man, will hasten the negotiations. — Irish. Times, Jan. nth, 18S7. 
 
 Wounding — Last night a number of disguised men entered the house of a 
 farmer named James Lane, near Brosna. Shots were fired, and Lane was wounded 
 in the head. The real object of the visit has not transpired. — Irish Times, 
 Jan. nth, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlighting Outrage. — On Saturday night some men fired several shots 
 into a dwelling-house at Rockfield, wounding dangerously three of the inmates. It 
 appears that on Saturday night six men, five carrying guns, and the sixth a scythe, 
 entered the house of a farmer named Connors at Catherlevoy, near Mountcollins. 
 One of the gang fired at Connors, but the shot did not take effect, and the old man 
 with his wife, sons, and daughters having recovered from their first surprise, turned 
 upon their assailants and made a desperate resistance. A terrible affray ensued, the 
 O'Connors u^ing sticks, chairs, and fireirons, and the Moonlighters even more 
 deadly weapons. Ultimately the old man and his children were completely 
 victoiious, for they captured the barrel of a gun from the miscreants, tore the masks 
 from their faces, and drove them off helter-skelter. The gallant old farmer was 
 wounded on the head by the same weapon, and one of his sons had his ear cut 
 open. Information was given to the police, and the four brothers Connor, who 
 bear the same name and are relations of their intended victims, were arrested as 
 they were making their way home. — Freeman's Journal, January nth, 1S87. 
 
 Moonlghting Outrage. — An extensive raid for amis is reported from' the 
 Abbeyfeale district. It appears that a party of moonlighters visited the houses of 
 several of the most respectable farmers in the locality. The party, wiiich consisted 
 of about forty, though armed were not disguised. The first house visited was that 
 of Mr. Oliver, who resides a short distance outside the town. Having entered the 
 house one of the men demanded firearms. Mr. Oliver stated that he had no arms. 
 This, however, did not satisfy the raiders, and they immediately commenced a 
 search. They were not long at work when they found in an inner 1 00m a large 
 sword, which they took possession of remarking that it was a very useful article. 
 They prosecuted their search further, but finding nothing else in the shape of arms, 
 they left. Some time later the house of a farmer named William Leahy was also- 
 visited. Here the party made a very minute search, but the search proved unsuc- 
 cessful, and having fired some shots, which happily did no injury, the party 
 departed without causing further trouble. — Freeman 's Journal, Jan. nth, 18S7. 
 
 Moonlighting Outrage. — Last night a party of armed men surrounded 
 the house of a farmer at Cappagh, on the borders of county Clare and Galway. 
 Ihe attacking party fired some shots into the house, one of which took effect, 
 striking the man under the arm. Several of the slug's have not yet been extracted, 
 and serious results are feared. It seems the cause of the outrage was the taking of 
 a farm out of which a tenant had been evicted a long time ago. — Freeman's Journal, 
 January, 13th, 1S87. 
 
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 Shooting Case — A printed notice was posted up at Knocknagoshal on 
 yesterday, cautioning a man named Kane to take away his son from B. O'Connor's 
 office, where he was engaged in the capacity of clerk and assistant bailiff. He 
 pointed out the cattle on Lord Headley's estate recently to the Tralee bailiffs, and 
 his brother-in-law was fired at on his way from a funeral last night, it is supposed 
 on this account. — Freeman's Journal, January 14th, 1887. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — The uninterrupted spell of peace which Mill-street has 
 enjoyed for some time has been broken. On Sunday a moonlight raid for arms was 
 made on the house of Mr. T. O'Connell, J. P., Mill-street. Mr. O'Connelland his 
 family were at mass, and the dwelling was in charge of an old servant, when some 
 disguised men entered and demanded arms. They made a hurried search, and, 
 finding no arms, they withdrew, Some arrests were made, but the accused were 
 afterwards discharged. — Freeman's Journal, January 18th, 1887. 
 
 Moonlighting Outrage. — About half-past eleven o'clock last night the 
 house of a farmer named Pat Keane, residing at a place called Direen, about two 
 miles from the village of Scarkglin, was visited by a party of three Moonlighters, 
 one of whom before leaving fired two shots at Keane, one of which took effect in 
 the instep, causing a slight wound. It appears that at the hour above stated Keane 
 and his family were in bed, when a knock was heard at the door. Keane got up 
 and opened the door promptly, when he was confronted by three armed men. Two 
 of them entered, and ilie third remained outside. One of the two who entered 
 demanded money of Keane, which he refused to give, stating he had none, where- 
 upon one of the Moonlighters presented a pistol at him and pulled the trigger, but 
 it did not go off. An incident is reported as having occurred then which certainly 
 must be looked upon as most extraordinary, and which must be considered as a 
 novelty in the operations of Moonlighters compared with what they have been 
 hitherto. The pistol failing to go off, it is stated that the man who endeavoured to 
 dislodge it asked Keane, who was to be victimised, for a pin to rectify whatever 
 was wrong with the pistol. Keane, it is stated, handed him the pin, and the man 
 having succeeded in removing whatever flaw was in the pistol by means of the pin, 
 discharged its contents into Keane's foot, three pellets getting embedded in the 
 instep. The party then decamped, and Keane suffered- considerably during the 
 night. This morning he was attended by Dr. Rice, and it is believed the injury is 
 not of a serious nature. Mr. Considine, R.M., Tralee, on hearing of the outrage, 
 proceeded to the scene this morning. No arrests have been made. — Freeman's 
 Journal, January iSth, 18S7. 
 
 Savage Attack. — A savage attack has been made by moonlighters on a 
 farmer named Michael Hartnett, residing at Ballybeagh, Rathkeale. On Sunday 
 night he conveyed his brother, who had dined with him, part of the way home, 
 and on returning two men, disguised by having their coats turned inside out, 
 jumped from behind a Hitch, and set upon him, knocking him down, and beating 
 him with sticks until he was insensible. Dr. Hayes, Rathkeale, who shortly after 
 attendel the sufferer, pronounced his life in imminent danger. Two men, named 
 Hanrahan and Kelly, have been arrested, identified, and remanded. The time of 
 the outrage has not been stated. — Irish Times, Jan. 19th, 1SS7. 
 
 Robbery of Arms. — Last evening a gang of seven or eight men armed and 
 disguised, visited the house of a farmer named Courtney, living at Moynish, a few 
 miles to the east of Killarney, and demanded a gun which the latter was in posses- 
 sion of, Courtney at first was reluctant to comply with their request, but on seeing 
 that their demeanour was becoming threatening, he handed over the gun, and they 
 left without doing any more. — Freeman's Journal, January 21st, 18S7. 
 
 Incendiarism. — Intelligence of a supposed case of incendiarism has been 
 conveyed to the Karryville Constabulary, and the fuiiest inquiries are being 
 instituted into the occurrence and its surroundings. It appears that a tenant- 
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 it was recently purchased for ,£800 by a neighbouring farmer, named Gardiner, 
 who intended taking possession next week. Yesterday morning the house on the 
 farm in question was found reduced to ruins by fire, and from the fact that the 
 building was untenanted the burning of it is believed to be malicious. — Freeman's 
 Journal, January 21st, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlight Raid. — It has just been reported from near Meelin, Cork, that on 
 Tuesday night, about 10 o'clock, an armed and disguised party, numbering twenty 
 or more men, visited the house of a farmer named Jeremiah O'Connell. The gang 
 demanded admittance. They were let in freely, and they demanded the gun, which 
 they got. They then turned on the father and son, and beat and kicked them. 
 It appears this same house was visited over twelve months ago, when young 
 •O'Connell resisted. — Daily Express, January 21st, 18S7. 
 
 Moonlight Raid. — A raiding party carried off a gun a few nights ago 
 from a man named John Griffin, residing near Castleisland. The gun was hidden 
 away in an out office, but the raiders discovered it. They had made two unsuccessful 
 attempts previously to seize the weapon. — Daily Express, January 21st, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlighting Raid. — The district between Kanturk and Newmarket and 
 west of the village of Freemount was, a few nights ago, made the scene of a 
 great moonlighting expedition. An unusual feature in connection with this parti- 
 cular raid for arms presented itself in the fact that the moonlighters had with them 
 two horses and carts. It appears they first called to the house of Carroll Daly, 
 Rathanna, distant a mile or more from Kanlurk. They here took a gun. For a 
 •distance of upwards of three miles or more, as far as Knockilla, the houses along the 
 route were visited, and guns taken. At Knockilla, on the road between Freemount 
 and Newmarket, about the hour of half-past eleven o'clock, the gang visited the 
 house of Jeffrey John Sullivan, and demanded his gun, which was given them freely. 
 They were not satisfied with the booty, and demanded another gun and revolver, 
 which Sullivan had not. They also asked his horse, and on offering the animal 
 -one of the gang said that they could manage without the horse. They then left. It 
 transpired that a police patrol passed this very same place but two hours before the 
 occurrence took place at Knockilla. — Freeman's Journal, January 22nd, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlight Outrage. — The house of a farmer named Thomas Curtin was 
 entered last night by a moonlighting gang near Abbeyfeale. Curtin had taken a 
 firm from which his sister had been evicted; and this was the motive of the visit. 
 Curtin was placed on his knees in the kitchen, and made to swear he would 
 surrender the grabbed farm, but whether the moonlighters were satisfied or not 
 with his assurance on the subject has net transpiied, but they fired at him, and 
 wounded the unfortunate man in the knee. Eight young men have been arrested. — 
 Irish Times, Jan. 25th, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlighting in Kerry. — Last night a parly of disguised men visited 
 several houses near Tralee, and succeeded in carrying off some guns and ammuni- 
 tion. No arrests have yet been made. —Freemaii s Jo urnal, January 25th, 1SS7. 
 
 A Man Shot. — At seven o'clock last night an armed and disguised body of 
 men entered the house of a respectable farmer named Curtin at Tournafulla, six 
 miles from here and the same from Newcastle West. They lodged a full discharge 
 of shot in the leg of Mr. Curtin, junior, and belaboured him with the butt end of a 
 gun. Great indignation is felt in the neighbourhood, and great sympathy evinced 
 for the Curtin family. No serious consequences are apprehended. — Freeman's 
 Journal, January 26th, 1SS7. 
 
 A GlRL Shot. — Information has reached here of an outrage havino- been 
 committed at Baskin High, near Ballymanor, last night, between seven and eight 
 o'clock. There was a small dance party assembled at the house of a farmer 
 named Matthew Moore. His daughter Mary, aged 16, was in an upper room, 
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 to ascertain who the parties might be. Almost immediately afterwards a shot was 
 fired. The girl was seriously wounded in the head and face. The parties 
 escaped ; the only assignable cause for the murderous act is that some persons in the 
 neighbourhood have an old spleen against the victim's brother. — Daily Express, 
 January 27th, 1SS7. 
 
 FEBRUARY. 
 
 Moonlight Outrage. — A party of moonlighters last night visited the 
 houses of four farmers at Kilson.rn, on the estate of Major Boderick. The 
 occupiers have recently purchased their farms. Five shots were fired at 
 Mr. Costelloe's house, breaking the windows, and one shot struck the dress ot 
 Miss Costelloe, but no injury was done. — Freeman 's Journal, February 4th, 1SS7. 
 
 Boycotting Extraordinary. — A small farmer, named Cotter, has been 
 evicted near Effin, county Limerick, on the property of Mrs. Trinsdell, of Dublin. 
 The bailiff employed on the estate had his children attending the local National 
 school, and on the day following the eviction, when they appeared in school, they 
 were groaned, and all the other children left en masse. At Youghal National 
 League a resolution was adopted, asking the shopkeepers to boycott Air. Blakeney, 
 agent of Air. Ponsonby, and those engaged in the recent eviction. Another reso- 
 lution was passed, at the instance of a tenant of Sir Joseph Neale M'Kenna, 
 condemning the hon. gentleman and calling upon him to resign in consequence of 
 his attack upon the Plan of Campaign ; and upon Mr. Lane, the member for the 
 division. On Saturday, it is stated, some labourers in the employment of Mr. 
 Blakeney refused to come into town with a car to fetch food for the men in charge 
 of Fleming's farm. — Irish Times, February 7th, 1887. 
 
 Extraordinary Outrage. — An extraordinary affair took place in Tippe- 
 rary last night. A house tenant in the Old-road, John M'Carthy, was evicted by 
 his landlord, John Doherty, undertaker, Main-street, for non-payment of rent. 
 The people of the locality turned out and attacked the evicted house, and com- 
 pletely demolished it, cheering and shouting that they would tolerate no eviction of 
 lands or houses in Tipperary in future for non-payment of an impossible rent. The 
 police appeared on the scene. — Irish Times, February 7th, 1SS7. 
 
 Outrage near Loughrea. — Late on Sunday night a party of armed men 
 attacked the house of Mr. Samuel Ellis, farmer, and agent to Lord Clonbrock, near 
 Loughrea. The windows and doors were broken by stones Mr. Ellis recently 
 summoned several persons for trespass and carrying away of timber. The tenants 
 have joined the Plan of Campaign, and writs have been issued against them. Some 
 arrests are expected in connection with the outrage.- — Irish Times, Feb. 8th, 1887. 
 
 Boycotting on the Clare Coast. — Boycotting has become more 
 vigorous at Milltown, Malbay, since the ruling of the magistrates at the licensing 
 sessions held at petty session there last October. Since then no person obnoxious 
 to the League will get any supplies, and the owners of posting cars refuse to supply 
 them. Mr. Stacpoole, of Edenvale, has a caretaker on Mutton Island, and that 
 man's family is the only one residing on the inland. They are strictly boycotted, 
 and are obliged to get their supplies from Mrs. Moroney's store at the Atlantic 
 Hotel. As no carrier will take the supplies, Mrs. Moroney is obliged to send them 
 to Seafield, about two and a half miles from the hotel. The caretaker takes the:n 
 to the island Irom there in a canoe. It is to be hoped that the decision of the 
 (Queen's Bench in Delany's case will have some effect in lessening the wicked and 
 cruel system of boycotting. — Daily Express, February 9th, 1S87. 
 
 Boycotting School Children. — To-day a regrettable demonstration of 
 the pupils attending the schools of the Christian Brothers and the Nuns of the 
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 the pupils, who sought to have the children of an unpopular person in the district 
 removed from the schools. On Monday a number of pupils attending the Christian 
 Brothers' schools revolted. The removal of the unwelcome pupils was contrary to 
 the regulation code. To-day the pupils, male and female, refused to attend the 
 schools, and to the number of seven hundred paraded the streets, cheering for the 
 Plan of Campaign. The children were headed by a juvenile Plan of Campaign 
 fife and drum band, lately established among some of the pupils. A party of police 
 had to attend to protect the obnoxious children on their return home. At Riordan's 
 Hotel, Mr. Cullinan, P. L.G., one of the organisers of the Kingston tenants, 
 addressed the pupils and the adult population who accompanied them, and told 
 them not to return until the children of their enemies were removed. — Irish Times, 
 February nth, 1SS7. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — An extraordinary and extensive raid for arms was made by 
 a party of fifty men on Friday night. Several houses were visited, and eight guns, 
 a revolver, and pistol carried away. The police are making active investigations, 
 but no arrests have as yet been made. To-day another raid for arms was made in 
 the parish of Kilmichael, when the houses of two farmers — Creed and O'Kecfe — 
 were entered, and arms borne away. The latter occurrence took place at noon. 
 
 An extensive series of raids for arms have taken place in the Ballyvourney 
 district, on the borders of the counties of Kerry and Cork. Several farmhouses 
 were visited and shots fired, the maraunding party numbering between forty and 
 fifty men. Eight guns, a revolver, and some pistols were carried off by the moon- 
 lighters. The raids are ascribed to the fact that eviction notices have been served 
 in the locality. — Freeman 's Journal, February 15th, 1SS7. 
 
 Armed Encounter with Police. — A singular shooting encounter took 
 place last night in the county Clare, between four policemen and an equal number 
 of civilians. It appears that two constables, named Casey and Brosnan, were on 
 patrol, and observing four men who had attended a ball or festivity at the village 
 were loitering around the locality, they kept them in sight. After a time two of 
 the men separated, and the two others were so much under the influence of drink 
 that the constables decided on arresting them. One of the persons who had 
 separated from his comrades, a man named Dwyer, returned and fired a revolver 
 shot at the police. The bullet entered Constable Casey's tunic and grazed the 
 skin. A second shot was, as alleged, fired by Dwyer at the police, but this time 
 it took effect on one of the men struggling with the police, the bullet going straight 
 through his wrist. Constable Casey then encountered Dwyer, and, after a severe 
 tussle, wrested the revolver from him, after which he discharged the three remain- 
 ing shots against the ground. The police had only their side arms, and did not, as 
 stated, return the fire. Dwyer, watching an opportunity, endeavoured to recover 
 the revolver from Constable Casey, and succeeded. He seized hold of the 
 constable's hand with his teeth, and it was not until he had bitten him 
 dreadfully that he loosened his hold of the revolver and allowed it to drop, where- 
 upon Dwyer seized it and made off, but on this morning he was arrested, and, with 
 the two men first taken into custody. Meany and the other person were taken 
 before Mr. O'Connel, J. P., and formally remanded. Meany, who was shot through 
 the wrist, was medically attended and his wound dressed. The fourth civilian did 
 not return at all after separating from the two men taken into custody, and did not 
 interfere in any way. The three prisoners having been committed to the Limerick 
 District Prison, were lodged there to-night. This strange occurrence gives colour 
 to the statement that the people of this locality, which is close to Bodyke, where 
 the evictions on Colonel O'Callaghan's estate are shortly to take place, are not 
 without arms, ond determined to give all the resistance in their power to the 
 ejectment proceedings. The constables concerned in the case state that, while they 
 believed that they had good reason to keep the men under close observation, they 
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 io, and in so remarkable a manner, as that adopted. The three men in custody 
 .are of a farming class, and it does not appear that there had been any previous 
 charge against them. — Daily Express, February 15th, 18S7. 
 
 Moonlighting near Listowel. — About 9 o'clock on Sunday night two 
 armed men disguised entered the house of a farmer named Casey, at Rylane, near 
 Listowel, and one presented a revolver at the farmer, who struggled with his as- 
 sailant. The latter's mask falling off, Cas^y identified him as Patrick Hickey, 
 who was subsequently arrested. The prisoner was brought to Listowel yesterday, 
 charged, and remanded. The object of the assailants was robbery. — Irish Times, 
 February 15th, 1887. 
 
 Outrage at Newcastle West. — A night or two ago an attempt was 
 made to blow in the door of a house in Bridge-street, Newcastle West, with 
 gunpowder. The former owner having got into difficulties left the country, and 
 Messrs. Ferrier, Pollock, and Company, Dublin, who hold a mortgage over the 
 premises, obtained possession, but the place was immediately boycotted, as the 
 mortgagees refused to pay a debt due to a popular trader who had supplied goods to 
 ■the absent owner, Recently Mr. John Murphy, draper, of Church-street, became 
 tenant of the house, and it is alleged he received threatening letters, and threatening 
 notices were posted about town, in consequence of which the people employed by 
 him to repair the premises refused to stay and others had to be obtained. No 
 arrests have yet been made in connection with the outrage. — Irish Times, 
 February 16th, 1887. 
 
 Daring Outrage. — An occurrence which seems inexplicable in its present 
 aspect is reported from the Bantry district. It is stated that on last night a large 
 party of one hundred men visited a house occupied by a person named Ross, who 
 are under police protection, and called upon them to surrender the house. There 
 were only two policeman guarding Ross, between whom and other members of the 
 same family some dispute has taken place with reference to the ownership of the 
 farm. Ross was called upon to leave the place. For a time the police held out, 
 but it does not appear they used their firearms, and finding that in pursuance of a 
 threat to knock down the building, crowbars and other implements were plied, the 
 inmates decided to surrender, leaving the dwelling in possession of the Moonlighters. 
 — Irish Times, February 1 6th, 1SS7. 
 
 The Murder of Byers. — Last night a party of men apparently well armed 
 fired at and severely wounded two Emergency men and a police sergeant just 
 outside Ballycar railway station. Two Emergency men named James Hatfield and 
 John Byers have been for the past three months in charge of a farm at Clunagh, 
 three miles beyond Newmarket-on-Fergus, on the estate of Surgeon E. Stamer 
 O'Grady, of Dublin, from which two brothers named Lynch were evicted this 
 winter. Residing on the farm along with the Emergency men are Acting-Sergeant 
 Maurice O'Connor and Constable William Dowling, who are engaged protecting 
 them. The policeman having complained of the bad condition of the house iv 
 which they lived, an artisan named Michael M'Manus was sent down by the 
 Properly Defence Association to repair it. For this some timber was needed, 
 and as the whole party are vigorously boycotted the Property Defence 
 Association promised them a horse and cart to take up the timber from 
 Ballvcar station, which is about six miles from Clunagh. The men expect- 
 ing the horse and cart to arrive by train from Limerick went down every 
 evening since Friday last to the station to meet it. The cart only arrived on 
 last night, the horse coming to-day, and Byres and M'Manus who with the sergeant 
 had come to Ballycar, leaving Hatfield and Constable Dowling at Clunagh, left 
 the station about 8.15 p.m. with the object of returning to Clunagh. They had not 
 gone 200 yards from the station when shots, at least ten in number, were fired at 
 them from behind the stone wall which skirts the road. Byres was the first struck 
 and he fell. Sergeant O'Connor then fired four shots from his rifle calling on 
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very dark none of the sergeant's shots appear to have taken any effect, and the at- 
 tacking party, which had followed them up the road keeping well behind the wall, 
 fired again wounding the sergeant on the right side and hip and M'Manus on the 
 right elbow. Byres crawled from where he fell in the middle of the road to the 
 wall from behind which the shots were fired, and the sergeant and M'Manus ran on 
 into Newmarket where they gave the alarm. Mr. Cunningham, stationmaster at 
 Ballycar, and his son-in-law, Mr. Stewart, hearing the shots ran up the road with 
 a lamp. They discovered Byres, who by this time was insensible, and procured a 
 luggage cart on which they brought him into the station where they put him to bed. 
 By this time a number of police had come down from Newmarket, and were 
 followed shortly after by Dr. Frost, of Newmarket, who attended Byers's wounds, 
 which he pronounced very dangerous. Byers was struck on the back and left side 
 by at least seventeen pellets, several of which penetrated the groin, and leave him 
 in a veiy precarious condition. Indeed the general impression is that he will nut 
 recover, Byers was removed to the Ennis County Infirmary this morning on an 
 ambulance car. Serjeants O'Connor and M'Manus, their wounds having being 
 dressed by Dr. Frost, have returned to Clunagh. District Inspector C. M. 
 M'Donnel!, Newmarket, was on the scene last night, which was visited early to-day 
 by Mi". Kilkelly, R.M., and County Inspector C. Heard. No traces beyond a 
 few foot-prints in the field from which the shots were fired were discovered, the 
 general wildness of the district, as well as the sparseness of its population, no doubt 
 aiding the Moonlighters in escaping unrecognised. No arrests have as yet been 
 made, but the police believe they have discovered a clue to the perpetrators of the 
 outrage, which they are actively following up. — Freeman's Journal, Feb. 16th, 1887. 
 
 Insurrection of Paupers. — In consequence ot the resignation of the 
 workhouse master yesterday, and in pursuance of the Plan of Campaign, a general 
 rising of the inmates took place to-day — the most audacious and well-planned that 
 could possibly occur — in New Ross Workhouse. 
 
 In consequence of the resignation of the shoemaker and tailor, the two vice- 
 guardians, Mr. Walter S. Ball and Mr. Arthur B. Nolan, were taking stock in the 
 workshops at the male side of the workhouse, situated in the boys' school-yard, 
 when they suddenly saw, as it were the whole house let loose, running down the 
 walk towards the boardroom. On arriving at the boardroom and not finding the 
 guardians there, they returned, and seeing them over the small divisional wall 
 separating the boys' yard on the right hand side, they rushed in a body of some two or 
 three hundred through the boys' yard gate and into the workshop. The vice- 
 guardian locked the door, which was quickly broken in, and the two vice-guardians 
 were beaten most unmercifully. One of them, Mr. Wall, after having his head 
 cut, and his hat battered and cut in two with some sharp instrument, succeeded in 
 making his escape to the boardroom, Mr. P. A. Pope, the clerk, having dispatched 
 two messengers in all haste for the police. Thinking they had despatched 
 Mr. Nolan, who is dangerously beaten, they again pursued Mr. Wall to the board- 
 room. Mr. Wall then rushed down the walk to the entrance gate, when all the 
 ableboclied inmates followed, and stoned him as far into the town as the corner of 
 Wexford Street and Charlton Hill, where they dispersed, and left the house in a 
 scene of the utmost disorder. The cause of the present mutiny was simply the 
 result of the Plan of Campaign and the resignation of the matron and six or seven 
 other officers yesterday. — Daily Express, February iSth, 1SS7. 
 
 Dynamite Outrage. — Last night between six and seven o'clock an attempt 
 is alleged to have been made to blow up the residence of Mr. Thomas Rice Henn, 
 Paradise, near Kildysart, by dynamite. The particulars state that two resident 
 magistrates, one the son of Mr. Henn, and District Inspector Carey were, with 
 others, in the dining-room when Sergt. Walsh and Constable Chesnut approached 
 on patrol duty. They observed the Hash of a match and saw a man run away. 
 Approaching the window sill they found a middle-sized box thereon, attached to 
 which was a fuse just ignited, which they quickly cut off. The box on being 
 examined was found to contain two pounds of dynamite. County Inspector Heard 
 has left to institute inquiries. — Freeman's Journal, February 19th, 18S7. 
 
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 Cruel Outrage. — Some days ago a brutal outrage was perpetrated at the 
 village of Currough, situated about eight miles from Clifden. Some cattle, the 
 property of two poor farmers, named, respectively, Stephen Wallace and Patrick 
 Nee, had their tails cut off and were otherwise maltreated. The farm on which 
 the cattle were grazing is on the estate of Mrs. Blake, Renvyle House, Letterfrack. 
 Wallace lately had a dispute about some question of an agrarian nature with some 
 of the farmers of the district, who are mostly all members of the local branch of the 
 National League, and, consequently, he has become odious. — Daily Express, 
 February 21st, 1S87. 
 
 Brutal Murder. — Last evening a most brutal and cold-blooded murder was 
 committed about four miles from Killarney, at a place called Cooles, which lies at 
 the foot of Mangerton Mountains. A body of men visited the house of three farmers 
 named Lyne, Fleming, and Shea, where they demanded arms, and it seemed, from 
 the questions they asked of the inmates of these houses, that they were searching 
 for the house of Con Murphy, whom they brutally murdered. From the accounts 
 which I elicited from the family of Con Murphy, the murdered man, on a visit to 
 the scene last night, I ascertained eight men — seven with blackened faces, and one 
 who was disguised by having a white hankerchief drawn over his face — entered the 
 house by the front door, which they found open. It was seven o'clock. The old 1 
 man and his family, which consisted of his wife, three sons, and two daughters, 
 were sitting by the fireside in some innocent conversation. One of the party, who 
 played the role of leader in the tragic business, desired the affrighted family not to 
 be alarmed, and stated that no injury would be offered to the family. Murphy's 
 revolver was demanded. He instantly left his seat and went to the press where it 
 was, and gave it over to the party with some ammunition, and after having done so 
 he took his former position in a chair, with his back to the table. The party then 
 turned to leave, having shaken hands with Murphy and his wife, and told them not 
 to be a bit afraid. When they reached the door some word of command was given, 
 or the calling of a certain number. Thereupon one of the cowardly gang turned 
 and asked if Murphy was still minding the rivers. Without waiting for a reply he 
 presented his gun and shot Murphy, who was within three yards from where he stood. 
 Murphy received the charge in the right leg, about four inches above the ankle, 
 shattering the bones and almost completely severing the foot from the leg. The 
 ruffian, after having fired with such deadly aim, joined those who remained 
 outside. One called out in a loud voice if he (meaning the deceased) had received 
 the shot, and the man who fired the fatal shot having replied in the affirmative they 
 all fled. — Freeman's Journal, Februaiy 22nd, 1SS7. 
 
 Political Demonstration by School Children. — Yesterday a 
 demonstration similar to that which occurred at Mitchelstown a few days ago took 
 place at the Christian Brothers' school. When it was ascertained that two sons of 
 a man in the employment of the Countess of Kingston were in the school, the 
 greater number of the pupils left in a body, expressing their determination not to 
 return while these children were present. The schools were almost deserted, and 
 the pupils who left gathered at the front entrance, and gave vent to their feelings as 
 regards the operations on the estate in a most unmistakable manner. It was the 
 first occasion for a long time previous that the children attended. — Freeman's 
 Journal, February 23rd, 1887. 
 
 Cattle Maiming.- — A Listowel correspondent states : On Tuesday night 
 the tails of seventy-two valuable cows and bullocks were cut, and other animals 
 otherwise injured. No cause can be assigned for the outiage, as Mr. Goodman, 
 J. P., of Mountcoal, the owner, is regarded as a good landlord. — Daily Express, 
 February 24th, 18S7. 
 
 Shocking Mutilation of Cattle. — At the Granard Petty Sessions to- 
 day a case which excited a great deal of public interest, came before the bench for 
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John Creegan, for mutilating three head of cattle, the property of Colonel Caulfield, 
 of Coolamber Manor, about the end of last month. The Crown was represented 
 by L. M. Fleming, S. C. S. The prisoners were undefended. 
 
 It appeared from the evidence of Head Constable Thomas Keenan, that James 
 Kelly, one of the accused, made a statement to the effect that he with others pro- 
 cured the blade of a scythe at his father's house and proceeded to the lands of 
 Coolamber, and there cut the tails off three bullocks, the property of Colonel 
 Caulfield, and otherwise mutilated them. Constable Gallagher deposed to Michael 
 Hinds, another of the prisoners, making a somewhat contradictory statement. A 
 man named M'Shane, who was also arrested, but turned informer, stated that he 
 was in company with the prisoners at the time of the occurrence, and that he 
 (M'Shane) was sent for the scythe, which he handed to Kelly, who then cut the 
 tails off three bullocks, while the other prisoners surrounded and kept the cattle 
 from escaping. The prisoners were sent for trial to the assizes at Longford on the 
 1st of March next. A threatening letter case arising out of the same transaction, 
 in which five persons were implicated, was, on the application of Mr. Fleming, 
 postponed until to-morrow at Ballinalee Petty Sessions. — Freeman' 's Journal, 
 February 24th, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlighting. — Intelligence has reached here that the house of Denis 
 O'Donnell, of Kilcoman, near Glenbane, Limerick Junction, was a few nights ago 
 visited by a party of five men. some with masked and others with blackened faces, 
 and being further disguised by wearing their coats inside out. The parties were 
 armed, one with a gun and the others with revolvers. There was no one in the 
 house at the time but O'Donnell's wife. They tendered her an oath requiring 
 herself and her husband not to interfere with a small farm in the neighbourhood, 
 the interest in which was about to be sold. Mrs. O'Donnell refused to take the 
 oath, and two of the partv then fired revolver shots into the thatched roof. One 
 of the men then threw a threatening notice to the woman, the purport of which was 
 to warn her husband not to have anything to do with the land in question, while 
 another entered the bedroom and took away a gun which was hanging up there 
 belonging to the owner of the house. The party then left and proceeded to the 
 residence of a neighbouring farmer named Michael Dwyer. They knocked ai the 
 door, and demanded admittance. Young Dwyer, hearing the knock, came to the 
 door, but before proceeding to open it he asked who was there, when a voice outside 
 replied " Police." The young man, not quite satisfied as to this, cautiously opened 
 the door a little and peeped out, when, seeing a number of men with blackened faces 
 outside, heat once closed it again. Both Dwyer and his son then, after securing 
 the door, armed themselves with pitchforks, determined to resist the forcible entry 
 of the Moonlighters, if attempted. The latter proceeded to the kitchen window, 
 through which they fired five revolver shots, and then placed through a broken pane 
 a copy of the threatening notice left at O'Donnell's house. They then decamped. 
 At the foot of this notice were words to the effect that Captain Moonlight was not 
 yet dead, or his boys either. The shattered stock of a gun was found next morning 
 in the yard of one of the houses visited. — Daily Express, February 26th, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlight Raiding. — Extensive raids were made by a moonlight party 
 in Kilsackan district, situate within six miles of Castleisland, Kerry, last night. A 
 party of six men, armed and disguised, visited a number of houses, principally on 
 the property of Mr. Charles Morphy, solicitor, Tralee, and Mr. Edward Murphy, 
 barrister, Dublin, and with threats warned the tenants not to pay their rents. 
 Michael Daly, Jeremiah Daly, and the Widow Coffey were asked why they had 
 paid their rents. Michael Daly said he had only paid portion, whereupon he was 
 struck with the stock of a gun and severely wounded. The captain having 
 'directed "Number 5" to fire three shots, the party left. Patrick Daly having 
 denied that he grabbed a farm, was struck a heavy blow with a gun, and left 
 senseless. Six other houses were visited, and similar occurrences took place. The 
 motive assigned is that the tenants are not fighting against their landlord. The 
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 Moonlighting. — A farmer named Leary, living at Listry, about seven miles 
 from Killarney, on the road to Milltown, was visited on Thursday night by about 
 eight Moonlighters, and questioned respecting a seizure of cattle he made for .£12, 
 the amount of a bill for which he had became security in one of the local banks for 
 another farmer in the same locality, named Lyne. Leary, it appears, seized twelve 
 head of cattle belonging to Lyne, and, having been unable to dispose of them by 
 public auction for the above amount, detained them on his own land for the past six 
 months, pending redemption. Lyne being unable to redeem, consequent on his 
 reduced pecuniary circumstances, and the wnole facts having got local ventilation, 
 Leary was visited, as already stated, and threatened with serious consequences if he 
 kept the cattle one week longer. Yesterday the cattle were placed on Lyne's land 
 by persons in Leary's employment without much ado, and are up to the present 
 grazing on the latter's farm. — Daily Express, February 28th, 1 88 7. 
 
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 Serious Rioting. — A determined attack was made on the police here last 
 night. It being market evening, some of the country people were quarrelling 
 amongst themselves, and when the police interfered they were attacked by the mob, 
 which numbered several hundreds, and increased as the police advanced towards 
 the barrack, the police having arrested two of the rioters, who struggled most de- 
 terminedly. The police, however, succeeded in bringing the prisoners to within 
 about 50 yards of the barrack, when they were fiercely attacked with stones, several 
 of them receiving very serious injuries. One policeman named M'Carthy had his 
 skull fractured. At this juncture the two prisoners were rescued by the mob. 
 Great excitement prevailed throughout. One woman is reported to be dying from 
 the effects of a blow received. During the riot some shots were fired, but no one 
 was injured from that cause. The police were armed with revolvers, but did not 
 use them, employing the baton only during the riot. — Freeman's Journal, March 
 3rd, 1SS7. 
 
 Brutal Outrage. — On Thursday last a most brutal outrage was committed 
 at Clontoo, in this county. Captain Taylor, on whose lands the deed was 
 perpetrated, gave to a gamekeeper named Connor grazing for some heifers. On 
 the evening mentioned one of these animals was found with its head battered in, 
 and four stones lying near the animal, which were used to carry out the vile act. 
 District Inspector Graves, with Head Constable Leonard, of Kenmare, visited the 
 scene next morning. — Daily Express, March 3rd, 1887. 
 
 Moonlight Raid. — A raid for arms was made at Lisnaboiy, within a few 
 miles of Kanturk, county Cork, last night. A large body of disguised and armed 
 men visited the houses of several farmers in the district, and made a search for 
 arms, but, as far as can be ascertained, they got none. In connection with the 
 affair it has been slated that one of the farmers whose house was visited was flogged 
 by the moonlighters. No arrests have been made. — Daily Express, March 5th,. 
 1 88 7. 
 
 Kerry Moolighters Again. — Another moonlight outrage has been 
 reported in this district. The night before last the house of E. M. Bernard, Esq., 
 J. P., was subjected to an attack under the guidance of Captain Moonlight. It 
 appears that a party of men armed and disguised found their way into the gentleman's 
 house, and asked for a gun. On being assured that there was no gun in the house 
 the gang were prevailed upon to decamp by obtaining the sum of !2s 6d. Before 
 leaving, however, they awoke the echoes of the surrounding hills by firing several 
 .shots. The police have visited the place. No arrests as yet have been made. — 
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Moonlight Outrages. — About half-past 2 o'clock this morning Sergeant 
 David Drohan, of Knocknagoshel, and three other policemen, on returning to 
 their barracks after being out on patrol for seven hours, heard four shots in the 
 direction of Beheenagh. The shots immediately aroused three other men, who had 
 been asleep in the barracks, and all proceeded in the direction from whence the 
 reports of the shots came. On arriving there they found that the houses of two 
 farmers named Dore and Mangan, the latter a brother to the man whose house was 
 associated so closely with the Feale Bridge affair, had been entered by a party of 
 seven men, armed with two guns and two revolvers, and partially disguised, who 
 fired two shots into each house. At Dore's house they asked for his son, and at 
 Mangan's house they called for the servant boy, whom they named " Traitor. " 
 This boy was sleeping opposite the window through which one of the shots was 
 fired, and the bullet struck the wall over his head. — Irish Times, March Sth, 1SS7. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — Last night four disguised and armed Moonlighters entered 
 the house of John Summers, of Irrimore, three miles from Listowel, and demanded 
 a gun. The weapon was handed over without hesitation, but subsequently one ot 
 the party fired through the room door, inside which Miss Summers was standing. 
 She received one of the shots in her hand, but was not otherwise injured. — Irish 
 Tunes, March Sth, 1887. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — At a late hour on Sunday night a party of Moonlighters, 
 numbering about twenty, visited several houses in the Ashford district. The party 
 sought for firearms in all the houses, and having obtained some arms they departed 
 without causing any injury. The men, who were all disguised, are supposed to 
 come from Kerry. The police are making active inquiries, but no clue as to the 
 identity of the raiders has yet been obtained. — Irish Tunes, March Sth, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlighters Gathering. — Last evening about seven o'clock a body of 
 moonlighters, armed but not disguised, assembled near Banaduff, about five miles 
 to the east of Killarney, for some object which, however, has not yet transpired. 
 At that time a party of young men were returning on an outside car from the 
 residence of the Rev. Mr. Walsh, P. P, Rathmore, and on the approach of the car 
 the moonlighters divided themselves at both sides of the road and viewed very 
 carefully the persons who were on the car. — Freeman's Jon rnal, March Sth, 1SS7. 
 
 Raid for Arms. — From the village of Ashford West, Limerick, it has been 
 reported that while the people were at Mass on yesterday a daring raid for arms 
 took place. The patriculars go to show that the gang numbered only three, who 
 were disguised. The only arms they possessed was the revolver which one of them 
 carried. One of the gang kept vigilance while the two others were visiting the 
 several farmers' houses. They first visited the house of Kenny, a farmer, whose 
 place is distant about a quarter of a mile to the West of Ashford. Kenny's wife 
 being the only person within at the time, freely gave the arms demanded. From 
 Kenny's they proceeded to Lower Killeedy, where they vLited the houses of three 
 farmers, named respectively Begley, Dore, and Scanlon, and from whom they 
 succeeded in getting a gun. — Freeman's Journal, March Sth, 1S87. 
 
 Arrests near Castleisland. — Last night four young men were arrested 
 under circumstances of a somewhat peculiar nature in the district that lies between 
 "Castleisland and Kingwilliamstown. It appears that the police got information 
 Aat some shots were fired last night in the locality, and they made an immediate 
 search. On their first visit to the houses of the four young men now arrested it 
 was found that they were absent. Later on they paid a second visit, but this time 
 also it was found they were absent. Oa a third visit they found the young men 
 inside, and on searching them they alleged they found articles of an incriminatory 
 character in their possession. The young men were brought under arrest this 
 evening to Tralee, and lodged in the county jail. — Freeman 's Journal, March Sth, 
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 Burnings. — Two further outrages occurred on Sunday morning. A rick of 
 hay, the property of Mrs. Quirke, was fired near Abington, and four shots were 
 fired into the house of the stationmaster at Drumkeen, Maurice Heffernan. No 
 injury was done, and it is supposed that this case has no connection with the 
 firings. Mr. Heffernan acted as an auctioneer on some occasion on which a farm 
 was sold for non-payment of rent. It is supposed that it is for this that his house 
 was fired at, more for the purpose of intimidation than from any desire to inflict 
 bodily harm. — Freeman' s Journal, March 8th, 1887. 
 
 Moonlight Raid. — On the night before last a party of men disguised went 
 round Clooneygoolane, Kiltumper, and other townlands in Cahermurphy, in the 
 parish of Kilmihill, and wrecked all the houses of tenants suspected of having paid 
 their rents to the landlord, Major-General Alexander Stewart, on whose estate the 
 Plan of Campaign had been adopted, and many of whom have recently been 
 served with ejectment writs. The windows in the houses thus visited were all 
 broken in with sticks and stones, with threats to the owners that as soon as it was 
 positively ascertained that they had paid their rents their conduct would be more 
 seriously noticed. The police have been investigating the matter. — Freemaris 
 Jotirna!, March 9th, 1S87. 
 
 A Bailiff Fired at. — Intelligence reached here this morning of anotber 
 outrage in Kerry It appears that yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, 
 a summons server named M'Neill went to serve a summons upon a farmer named 
 Sullivan, his son, and his daughter, at the suit of a neighbour named M'Elligott for 
 assault. When he approached the place he met John Sullivan, the son, who it is 
 stated, pointed out him to M'Elligott's house as Sullivan's. He went to M'EUigott's 
 house, and on being iniormed of his mistake he proceeded towards Sullivan's house, 
 where he found the door barred against him. Accosting a man who was working 
 in a garden near the place, he told him he would have to serve the summons. 
 This man said something to him that caused him alarm, for he immediately walked 
 off in the direction of M'Elligott's house. When passing Sullivan's haggart a shot 
 was fired at him, and the bullet whistled by his head. A second shot immediately 
 afterwards tore up the turf, within a few yards of him. M'Neill ran as fast as he 
 could now, and two more shots were fired, but fortunately he escaped without 
 injury. On getting to Tralee he made an information to the police, and John 
 Sullivan was arrested. A gun which bore the appearance of having been recently 
 discharged, was also found in Sullivan's house. The prisoner was brought before 
 Mr. Considine, R.M., and remanded. — Daily Express. March, 10th, 1SS7. 
 
 Attack on a National Leaguer. — A murderous attack is repoited to 
 have been made on Mr. John D. Enright and his brother, near Ballylongford. 
 It appears that Mr. Enright has been elected president of an opposition branch of 
 the National League, and since then anything but an amicable feeling prevails in 
 the district. A few nights ago, as Mr. Enright and his brother were returning 
 home two men with blackened faces jumped from inside a ditch and made a 
 desperate assault on them. Fortunately some friends, attracted by their cries for 
 help arrived, and the assailants fled. No arrests have been made. — Irish Times, 
 March 10th, 18S7. 
 
 Disgraceful Outrage. — One of the worst outrages on dumb animals that 
 has been committed in the neighbourhood of Killarney for many months past was 
 perpetrated at Aglish, the property of the Hurley minors, of which Miss L. A. 
 Thompson is receiver. A few nights since, at dusk on Sunday evening, a horse 
 belonging to a man named Connor, residing at Laharne, on the Aglish property, 
 was taken out of the stable and driven into the Geister river, which runs through 
 the parish. On arriving at the bridge the inhuman fellows — about six in number — 
 who had stolen the horse from its stable tied the neck to the forelegs, and then tied 
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 which the horse was placed runs very deep. Connor, on returning home some 
 three hours afterwards, missed the horse from the stable, and after a search dis- 
 covered it in the middle of the river in an exhausted condition. The cause of this 
 inhuman manifestation of malice towards Connor is the fact that he has been in 
 the habit of driving the protection police at Aglish to and from Killarney in his 
 car. The outrage, on being reported in Killarney, elicited much disapproval. 
 Suspicion has been attached to the perpetrators by Connor, but no clue to warrant 
 them being made amenable has been obtained. — Irish Times, March ioth, 18S7. 
 
 Outrage in Limerick. — A cruel outrage is reported here from the district 
 of Hiskeame, not far from Glountane Finane. This morning, about five o'clock, 
 twelve cows, the property of a farmer named Andrew Quinn, were burnt to death. 
 No cause has yet been assigned for this outrage, and it is to be hoped the perpetra- 
 tors will be brought to justice. Another feature in this sad affair is that the son of 
 this farmer was arrested yesterday at Boherbee, in company with another young 
 man named Daly, through the following cause : — Some shots were fired into the 
 village. The police found these two young men in the street. A revolver was 
 found upon Quinn, for which he had not a license. A mask was found on the 
 person of Dah'. They were admitted to bail. — Irish Times, March 12th, 1SS7. 
 
 Moonlighting and Setting Fire to A House. — Last night an outrage 
 or a diabolical character was perpetrated at Derrynavoggy, near Keadue. A few 
 months ago a small farmer was evicted from his holding for nonpayment of rent, 
 and three policemen and two Emergency men were put in possession of the house, 
 which is on the Kilronan estate, the property of Lord Kingston. From informa- 
 tion received, it appears that the men were subjected to all the rigour of boycotting, 
 and were obliged to go great distances to secure the common necessaries of life. 
 Last night, while the men were asleep, the house was set fire to from outside, some 
 paraffin oil having been thrown on the thatch and set aflame. The occupants were 
 almost suffocated, and narrowly escaped being burned to death. This is the 
 second time within the past fortnight that attempts have been made to burn houses 
 in this neighbourhood under somewhat similar circumstances. To day Countv 
 Inspector Hojel and District Inspector Babbage, R. I. C. , Boyle, visited the scene ot 
 the outrage, and from inquiries made, it appears have information which may lead 
 to the arrest of the perpetrators of the outrage. — Daily Express, March 12th, 18S7. 
 
 Desperate Encounter and Shooting of Two Policemen. — A 
 desperate encounter, resulting in two policemen being wounded, took place last 
 night near the Ennismore Station, on the Limerick and Kerry Railway, at the 
 house of a respectable farmer named Maurice Halloran. His farm is situate on the 
 townland of Killacrim, and is about three miles from Listowel and fourteen from 
 this town. The locality has been veiy quiet until recently, but fur the last fort- 
 night houses have been raided for arms, with serious injury to a farmer's daughter 
 in one case, her arm having been broken by one of the Moonlighters, who fired 
 through the door of her father's house, after having got up his gun. The encounter 
 last night occurred at half-past ten o'clock. Through some reason or another the 
 police expected that the houses in which there were guns would be visited, and 
 accordingly they had placed men ambushed in the vicinity of the houses in thit 
 locality. A patrol, consisting of head-constable Concannon and constables Kelly 
 and Waters, in accordance with this arrangement, were in ambush outside 
 Halloran's house. They were not there for any great length of time when they 
 not: ;ed a body of men coming into the yard, and going to the back of the house. 
 They noticed between them and the white walls of the house that the men wei e 
 armed, and immediately they suspected the nature of their visit. The place where 
 the police were ambushed was at the north or back of the house, while the Moon- 
 lighters entered the yard by a passage leading into it from the west. The front of 
 the house faces scuth, and the stable, which is built at right angles to the house, 
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 approached. The entrance to the kitchen is at the back of the house in the angle 
 formed by itself and the stable. The party then, after coming into the yard, came 
 -along by the front of the stable, and turned round into the kitchen. At this time 
 the police were about fifty yards to the north of an avenue leading up to the yard 
 of the house. Seeing the men, as described, turning the corner oi the house, the 
 police approached, and as they did so saw some of the men returning into the 
 yard, where two other men had been left apparently as sentinels. 
 
 When the police came sufficiently clos. to the groups they called on them to 
 surrender in the Queen's name. No reply was given, but the moonlighters made 
 off in an opposite direction. The police then fired three shots at them, and rushed 
 forward to arrest them. Constable Kelly, who was in advance of the others, 
 succeeded in capturing one of the men. They struggled for a time, but the Head 
 Constable and the other policemen having come to his aid, he secured his man. 
 This took place in the front of the stable, and he was taking back his prisoner to 
 the stable when he noticed a man lying on the ground. Having also noticed that 
 he had something in his hand, he laid hold of him. The fiist man then gave a jerk, 
 and escaped, but Kelly held on to the second man, and with the assistance of his 
 confreres, who had returned from pursuit of the other moonlighters, they took the man 
 into the stable, where they found he was armed with a double-barrelled gun, which 
 was loaded and capped. They handcuffed the prisoner, and left him in charge of 
 Constable Waters in the stable, after which the head constable and Constable 
 Kelly came out into the yard again. 
 
 Then fresh and more serious work began. It appears at the time the police 
 came up half the Moonlighters were in the house, and one of their number on 
 guard, seeing the police approach, passed the word. Those in the house then 
 trooped out, and fell into a body in a field to the east of the house. While the 
 first struggle in the yard was going on they came around by a field to a low stone 
 wall which bounds the yard. Then, when they saw the two policemen coming out 
 of the stable they fired a volley at them. At the same time another volley was fired 
 trom behind the fence of an orchard, wounding the Head-constable slightly and 
 wounding Kelly rather seriously. The police, fired at from two directions, returned 
 the fire towards the places from whence the shots came. They saw from this that 
 the Moonlighters were divided into two different bodies, and that each occupied a 
 safe position behind ditches and walls. The firing between the two parlies lasted 
 ten or fifteen minutes, there being great determination shown on both sides, 
 but after being wounded the police, who were some yards from the stable door, 
 gradually retired, in order to defend the place if an attempt to rescue the prisoner 
 were made. As they entered the door two shots were fired at them from immediately 
 opposite, and the contents of the shots lodged in the door posts. The shots also hit 
 a chest inside the door, so that the police had a very narrow escape. — Irish Times, 
 March 14th, 1887. 
 
 Moonlight Raid. — A report received at Macroom states that the house of 
 Mr. Thomas Cooper, a magistrate, at Rusheen, about four miles distant, was 
 entered on Sunday by three disguised men, who made search for arms without 
 effect. — Daily Express, March 15th, 1SS7. 
 
 OUTRAGES in Cork. — Mr. Parnell's police are again busy in this locality. 
 'On Sunday close on a dozen of the force, partly disguised, visited the house of 
 Cornelius Murphy, of Kilmackrane, and broke the window ot his dwelling, through 
 which they entered. The ruffians made Murphy go on his knees and swear that he 
 would give up a farm which he legally acquired some time ago. After leaving here 
 they visited the house of a friend of his, named Rahilly, on the same lands. Here 
 they broke open a box in search of the deed of Murphy's lands. The police are 
 investigating the occurrence. — Daily Express, March, 16th, 1887. 
 
 Attack on a Herdsman by Moonlighters. — Intelligence has reached 
 Limerick of a violent attack by moonlighters on a herdsman in the employment of 
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 The moonlighters entered the poor man's cabin and beat him with heavy sticks. 
 He states that owing to the roof of the domicile being very low the fellows were 
 unable to deal him blows as effectively as they would have desired. He seized an 
 old sword-cane, and stabbed one of them in the chest. His assailants then ran 
 away, and as they were making off he succeeded in stabbing another. Shortly after 
 they approached the cabin again and fired at the herdsman, but fortunately without 
 effect. One of the assailants — the only one he was able to recognise — whose rami; 
 he gave to the police, cannot since be found, and no arrests have been made. — Irish 
 Tunes, March 21st, 18S7. 
 
 A Moonlighter Shot Dead. — Last night, about half-past nine, as a police 
 party were ambushed outside a farmer's house, named King, at Ballybrinagh, a 
 number of disguised men came on the scene, for the object, it is presumed, of 
 inducing King to vote for a Poor-law candidate in opposition to another. When 
 some of the men had entered the hou-e the police advanced after them, and called 
 on them to stand. One of the party fired on the constables. The latter fired 
 then, and in the firing a young man named Lenihan was shot dead, the others 
 decamping. Lenihan, it is said, di 1 not belong to the party. An inquest will be- 
 held to-morrow. — Daily Express, March 22nd, 1SS7. 
 
 Ruffianly Outrage in Clare. — Early yesterday morning two young 
 men of the labouring class, named Edward Walsh and Thomas M'Inerney, were 
 arrested and brought into Ennis by the police, charged with having on the 19th inst., 
 visited the house of a man named MacNamara, at Lisheen, and assaulted Isaac 
 Campbell, and also threatened and intimidated him. They cried out " Heads 
 down," and immed'ately one of them caught hold of Campbell from behind, put a 
 
 bayonet across his neck, knocked him under the table, and threatened the " b 
 
 Protestant " that if he did not quit the place at once they would take his life. 
 Campbell has left his work and does not intend to return. A private inquiry was 
 held in the police-barrack yesterday by Mr. Kilkelly, R.M., who took Campbell's 
 depositions, and, on the application of District-Inspector Hill, the prisoners were 
 remanded for a week. — Daily Express, March 22nd, 1SS7. 
 
 Lawlessness in Cork. — Yesterday afternoon a raid for arms was success- 
 fully made near Mill-street. The house of a respectable farmer named John 
 Murphy was entered by a party of armed and disguised men, who demanded his 
 gun from a lad who was the only occupant of the house. The police arrested 
 eight young men of the labouring class, and to-day brought them before the 
 magistrates at Mill-street Petty Sessions and charged them with robbery and 
 unlawful assembly. Di-trict Inspector Hill applied for a remand. Captain 
 Stokes. R. M. — What state i= your district in ? District Inspector Hill— Very bad 
 your Worship. Since I came heie, five weeks ago, there have been four or five 
 such raids and a few weeks before I came I believe there were several. District 
 Inspector Yates of Kanturk — I may add, your worship, that my district, is also 
 ! very bad. Daily and nightly raids are being made for arms — in fact the district is 
 worse than ever it was. Captain Stokes — Taking into consideration what has 
 been said by the dbtiict inspectors of their seveia! districts, we are unable to refuse 
 this application. The prisoners were then remanded for a week. Daniel Lucy 
 was returned for trial at the quarter sessions charged with having been one of a 
 party of men who attacked the dwelling of a farmer at Islanddahill on the 5th 
 February. Extensive raids for arms are reported from the Blarney districts. — • 
 Daily Express, March 22nd, 1SS7. 
 
 More Moonlighting in Kerry. — Another shameful moonlight outrage is 
 reported to have occurred near Killarney. On Sunday night last a large body of 
 men entered the house of a man named Sheehan at a place called Toorencahili. 
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 Sheehan that if he did not give up his land they would pay him another visit, and 
 after firing several shots in and around the house the party decamped, leaving the 
 unfortunate man and his family in a great state of terror. It appears this man Sheehan 
 purchased a farm from Mrs. Twomey, and on the 20th of February last paid ^150 
 for it to Mrs. Twomey, who sold the farm to Sheehan at her own free will, and with 
 the cognizance and sanction of the landlord, the Earl of Kenmare, so that the attack 
 on Sheehan for buying this farm seems rather strange. The party after leaving 
 Sheehan's paid a visit to the " Village Blacksmith." One of the party pointing a 
 revolver at the smith told him that if" he dared to continue to work for Sheehan, to 
 shoe his horses or anything else for him, he would get the contents of it (meaning 
 the revolver). The smith promised that he would never again do anything for' 
 Sheehan, and his unpleasant visitors left him. The party then visited the farm of a 
 man named Cremen, and cut the mane of the poor man's horse. The matter was 
 reported at Killarney yesterday (Wednesday) for the first time. The police, it is 
 understood, are in possession of all the facts, but up to the present no arrests have 
 been made in connection with the disgraceful conduct. — Irish Times, 25th March, 
 1887. 
 
 Chase after Moonlighters. — About four o'clock to-day the house of a 
 respectable farmer, Mr. William O'Donnell, who lives at Ballyeneighty, a mile 
 from here, was entered by a party of three men, two of whom were armed witli 
 revolvers and disguised by having cloths over their faces. The third man was 
 neither armed or disguised, and made no attempt to conceal his personality. They 
 demanded arms, but Mr. O'Donnell's servant-man said he would not give up a 
 gun which was in the house in the absence of his master, who happened to be in 
 Tralee at the time. Mrs. O'Donnell, on seeing that the children were alarmed by 
 the demonstration of disguised men, ordered the man to give up the gun, after 
 which the three left the house, followed by some of the inmates. They had to 
 t. averse a boreen which leads to the house in order to reach the public road, 
 and had left a few minutes when Constable Belton, of Tralee, who was 
 taking a walk in that direction, came up, and was told that the three- 
 men whom he saw on before him — they being only 300 yards off, were after 
 taking the gun from the house. Although unarmed the constable ran after the 
 parties. Sergeant M'Govern and Sergeant M'Namee proceeded to the house of 
 Joseph Lovett, of Bailyroe, and arrested two men named Patrick Casey and John 
 Healy on suspicion. They appeared tired, and were unusually dirty in their 
 appearance, A gun recently discharged was found on the table of the house, but 
 Mr. Lovett said it was his, and that he was filing at crows in the field outside. The 
 prisoner Casey is a servant to Mr. Lovett, and Healy is a mason from Lixnaw, 
 employed building labourers' cottages at Bailyroe. They were brought up to-night, 
 and remanded. — Irish Times, 26th March, I1SS7. 
 
 Illegal Drilling. — -John Jagoe, a farmer of Inchafune, came upon a 
 party of men drilling near Drimoleague about ten o'clock on Thursday night. The 
 leader who was mounted, called upon Jagoe to give the countersign, whereupon 
 Jagoe immediately rode off, pursued, however, for two miles. The police are 
 making inquiries. — Irish Times, March 26th, 18S7. 
 
 Moonlighting. — A Farmer's Son Shot. —Intelligence reached Limerick 
 this evening that a farmer's son named David Begley, residing at Caherlevroy, neai 
 Mount Collins, in the west of the county, was between eight and nine o'clock last 
 night fired at and dangerously wounded by a gang of Moonlighters. The victim, 
 Daniel Begley, is a farmer's son, residing at Caher'evoy. He keeps a car, by 
 which he makes a living, and the murderous attack made upon him is attributed to 
 bad feeling towards him for accommodating the p lice by conveying them to 
 evictions and other places where their duties call them. On Friday night he lefl 
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 He and his friends reached Naughton's Cross on the way home when a gang of 
 disguised men, who had been in waiting, some having guns and the others revolvers, 
 rushed upon them. They fired three revolver shots at Begley. One of the bullets 
 entered above the hip, another grazed his head, and the third went wide of its 
 mark. There seemed to be no intention on the part of the Moonlighters to 
 interfere with the three other occupants of the car, but when one of them showed a 
 disposition to defend Begley he was knocked down by a blow of the butt end of a 
 gun on the head. The sound of approaching footsteps, the firing, and cries for help 
 having attracted some persons wdio happened to be in the neighbourhood to the 
 spot, put the Moonlighters to flight. Begley was then conveyed home, and Dr. 
 M'Carthy, Abbeyfeale, was in attendance as soon as possible. In his opinion the 
 wound will not prove fatal, but it might prove more serious than he apprehends. 
 Two arrests were made, but the parties were shortly afterwards discharged for want 
 of identification. — Irish Times, March 2Sth, 1SS7. 
 
 Another Outrage in Clare. — Last evening, about nine o'clock, an 
 armed party visited the farm of Knockalue, within a mile of the village of O'Cal- 
 laghan's Mills. This outrage is, no doubt, of an agrarian character, and intended 
 to intimidate a respectable farmer and landowner named Michael Shalloo, and 
 with this object five shots were fired close to his house. It appears that an estate 
 in this neighbourhood, to which father O'Reilly, S. J., Limerick, became the in- 
 heritor, was sold about twenty years ago, and purchased by the present Lord Fitz- 
 gerald, with the exception of the townland, which was bought by Shalloo for 
 2,1,200. He farms a large portion of it himself, and has the remainder let to two 
 tenants. Lord Fitzgerald has been most liberal to his tenants, and though all 
 hold under lease he has made large abatements from time to time, and on the last 
 gale gave them 20 per cent. Shalloo's tenants demanded the same. Though a 
 comparatively poor man he offered them 10 per cent., which they would not accept, 
 and he was obliged to take legal proceedings against them. — Irish Times, 
 March 2SU1, 1SS7. 
 
 Disturbances in Athenry. — A Loughrea correspondent sends particulars 
 of a conflict which occurred in Athenry ou Saturday, arising out of differences 
 between the National League and the local branch of the Gaelic Athletic 
 Association. A number of the latter were returning from a hurling match at 
 Oranmore, and marched through Athenry with their hurling sticks upon their 
 shoulders. This excited sneers from some members of the National League, and 
 a collision occurred between the rival sections. Stones, bottles, and bricks were 
 thrown, and the police were unable, even with the assistance of some shopkeepers, 
 to quell the disturbance. Eventually some leaders of the Gaelic Association 
 arrived and induced their followers to withdraw. Several persons and a constable 
 sustained severe injuries, which were attended to at a neighbouring surgery. A 
 number of arrests have since been made. — Irish Times, March 29th, 1887. 
 
 Murderous Attack on A Farmer. — Intelligence received from Galway, 
 reporis a murderous attack by a partv of men on a small farmer named Halleran, 
 who resides near the town of Gort. It appears that the man was on his way home, 
 and he had been here to transact some business, and just as he arrived at the gate 
 leading to Loughcouter Castle, the residence of Viscount Gough, he was surrounded 
 by a large party of men who attacked him with sticks and stones, smashing his 
 skull, and leaving him as they believed dead on the road, where he was found by 
 some persons passing, who reported the matter to the police. The body, which 
 was apparently lifeless, was conveyed to a house near, when medical aid was at 
 once called in. No hopes however, are entertained of the man's recovery. Four 
 arrests were made. The only cause assigned for the outiage is that Halleran, not- 
 withstanding many cautions given him, persisted in speaking and acting friendly 
 towards a neighbour of his who had been boycotted. — Irish Times, Mar. 30th, 18S7. 
 
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