| Summary: | faction The faction fights went on for many years [after 1817]. "Yallow-belly Corner", on the east side of Beck's Cove, commemorates the spot where the wounded in the melee used to be washed in the little brook flowing into Beck's Cove. The Tipperary "clear airs", the Waterford "whey bellies", and the Cork "dadyeens" were arrayed against the "yallow belly" faction - the "Doones" or Kilkenny boys, and the Wexford "yallow bellies." There were besides the "young colts" and a number of other names for the factions. They fought with one another "out of pure devilment and divarsion", as an old Irishman explained it to me. PRINTED ITEM GMS Sept 74 Used I Used I Used I
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