... frequently raided the planters cattle, bringing his spoils to his mountainous retreat. In a notice about him the late Chevalier Grattan-Flood wrote Many are the weird legends told of Cahir Ruedlt's Den, which may still he seen, and tradition has it that Cahir ...

... in the matter of arms, and finally declared that the time was come for resistance, and that he himself, would lead to the field those of his parishioners who were willing to follow him, for be deemed it better to die like men with arms in their hands, ...