Persons
CHRISTOPHER MAHON.OLD MAHON, his father, a squatter.MICHAEL JAMES FLAHERTY (called MICHAEL JAMES), a publican.MARGARET FLAHERTY (called PEGEEN MIKE), his daughter.SHAWN KEOUGH, her cousin, a young farmer.WIDOW QUIN, a woman of about thirty.PHILLY CULLEN and JIMMY FARRELL, small farmers.SARA TANSEY, SUSAN BRADY, and HONOR BLAKE, village girls.A BELLMAN.SOME PEASANTS.
The action takes place near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo. The first Act passes on an evening of autumn, the other two Acts on the following day.