Connaught Journal published Galway, Ireland Thursday, August 14, 1823 On the night of Sunday last, between the hours of twelve and one, the house of a man named DUGAN, residing at Cregane, near this town, parish of Drum, Co Roscommon, was maliciously set on fire by a party of incendiaries. The poor man and family were buried asleep in bed, at the time, but were providentially awakened by the suffocating impressions they were receiving from the smoke, and escaped without injury. Their house and little furniture, however, fell prey to the flames. This and former outrages, are the emanations of a system, which, lurking in the neighbourhood, gives, by intervals, manifestations of its existence, without being as yet discovered.---Athlone Herald. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Newspaper Abstracts http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/ Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/ Joynt / Joint Family Chronicles http://www.celticcousins.net/joynt/