Annaghdown Boating Tragedy

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Connacht Journal , Sept. 22nd 1828

The 21 unfortunate persons drowned in the boat from Annadown, on the morning of the fair of Fair-hill (the 4th inst.) were almost exclusively the tenants of Colonel J. Staunton Rochfort, of the County Carlow, and Charles Staunton Cahill, Esq., of the County of Clare.