Note 3 — Chapter VIII · THROUGH KERRY ON HORSEBACK.

My guide was quite right. In a statistical table of trials between July, 1885, and July, 1886, for the County Kerry, I find the following items: maiming cattle, 9; injury to person, 7; murders, 3; firing at persons, 8; firing into houses, 15; threatening letters, 125; intimidation, 36; malicious injury, 22; arson, 19; assaults, 22. The above figures, it should be observed, only relate to outrages brought home to their authors; there can be no doubt that a much larger number of agrarian outrages remain unpunished.