ATHLONE VOLUME 3 Regatta in the year 1850……………….pg 15 Proposal to light town with gas and watches…….pg 22 Murder of Martin DUFFY………………pg 28 Harvest prospect very good……………..pg 29, 30 M. BURGESS, Draper robbed………….pg 30 Passing of first train over Bridge on its way to Galway…pg 30, 31 Wm KEOGH escaped drowning ……….pg 33, 36 March Fair year 1852……………………pg 48 Sept Fair bad due to deaths landlords immigration yr 1852…..pg 62 Prosecution of LYNCH for Bribery………pg 68 Holy week 1853………………………….pg 68 DEATH John CAFFREY drops dead at Roscommon………...pg 88 BIRTH – Lady of George K(H)ETHNINGTON………….pg 97 FAIR – Jan 1855………………….pg 102 BIRTH – Lady of Rev Hugh MURRAY………..pg 102 Militia riot Police Bks attacked………….pg 105 Westmeath Rifles transferred to Plymouth………pg 106 HORSE FAIR – Jan 1857………………..pg 126 DEATH Patrick HOGAN & J, HARRISON drown…….pg 132 Attempt at assassination of lord CASLTEMAIRE…………pg 139,140 DEATH – Sister Joseph (Caroline NASH) St Peters parish…..pg 144 DEATH – Most Rev D. BROWNE Bishop of Elphin…………pg 145 Railway from Tullamone nearly completed……………………pg 149 Railway to Roscommon final …. Completed………………….pg 149 DEATH John REYNOLDS & Wm O FLYNN merchants…...pg 165 Roscommon railway to open on March 3 1860……………….pg 178 TRIAL of EGAN & DARBY for Murder of Patrick LYONS…pg 178 DEATH – Sister Agatha BREEN Mercy Convent…………pg 181 MARRIAGE ARMSTRONG & O’CONNELL……………pg 185 DEATH – PRENDERGASTS family death of a child……..pg 188 BIRTH – Lady of James MURSTAGH a son……………pg 188 Regatta - Aug 1862………………………..pg 197