Now therefore, when the news spread from altar to altar, and from cabin to cabin, that the strangers were to be driven out, and that their houses and lands were to be given as a booty to the children of the soil, a predatory war commenced.

Plunderers, thirty, forty, seventy in a troop, prowled round the town, some with firearms, some with pikes.
The barns were robbed.

The horses were stolen.

In one foray a hundred and forty cattle were swept away and driven off through the ravines of Glengariff.

In one night six dwellings were broken open and pillaged.