Night of 26 May
The reaction on both sides was rapid, vengeful yeomanry patrols roaming, burning and killing indiscriminately while the rebels roused the countryside and made several raids on manors and other houses holding arms, killing more loyalists and yeomen. News of the skirmish and raids had by now reached Wexford town and the bulk of its garrison, 110 of the North Cork militia with 20 yeomen cavalry were ordered north to crush the nascent rebellion.
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“From man’s blood-sodden heart are sprung
Those branches of the night and day
Where the gaudy moon is hung.
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)