14-1-1881 ARMED RAID On Christmas night three farmers named Bannan, Butler and Laughlin, living near the Ragg, Thurles, were visited by an armed party. Bannan and Butler's houses were riddled with balls, slugs etc, both windows and door open, and some clothes that were hanging up in rooms opposite the doors and windows were riddled from the shot etc fired into the houses. Laughlin's house was not so furiously attacked, as the door and window were only broken with some blunt instrument, and a hay cock and a couple of pits of champions in the haggard tossed about. The cause of these outrages is for paying their rents over Griffith's valuation, which in the whole amounted to only a few shillings over the standard (Griffith's). Of course the affrighted parties say they do not know the visitors, and hence no arrests are made. Mary