The valiant Dan Winter, throughout the troubles, stuck manfully to his own hearth and home, and refused to join the force on the hill. He said he would defend his house whilst he and his sons could fire a shot. And they did They received the enemy with a volley, under which one of Winter's own neighbours, a man named McCann, fell dead, and several others were wounded, and for half-an-hour they kept the rabble off. But the thatched roof of the house was fired, and the house became untenable,and Winter and his sons made good their retreat to the hill.

Whilst this scene was going on at one part, Quigley's party was making desperate efforts to rush the hill. Whilst they were engaged in this enterprise a few of the Protestants attempted to carry Faughart Hill by a flanking movement, but the reserve of man in camp was too strong for them, and they had to fall back again to their own ground.