Perry and the surviving column then left Wexford and reached the Wicklow hills on 5 July , having fought off a pursuit led by General James Duff ( who ordered the Gibbet Rath executions ) at the battle of White Heaps/Ballygullen . Some rebels took to the hills to fight on in a protracted guerrilla war ; some returned to their homes ; but the bulk set off on a march into the midlands to revive the rebellion under the effective leadership of Perry and Fr . Mogue Kearns
Gibbet Rath executions
Gibbet Rath executions
Anthony Perry