Connaught Journal published Galway, Ireland Monday, June 9, 1823 CASTLEBAR, June 5- On Thursday last, at the fair of Tunershowins, near Killala, the Police were attacked by a mob of about five hundred persons, for the purpose of rescuing a man who was in their custody for an assault. They were obliged to fire in their defence, and the consequence was, that one of the assailants was killed on the spot, and another so severely wounded as to render his recovery altogether hopeless. An investigation of the riot at the fair took place, we understand, before J. KNOX, of Castlerea, on Friday, and on the night of that day, two of Mr. KNOX's cows were houghed. These transactions, succeeding others of a most disagreeable nature, tend to fasten a character of insubordination on the people of that neighbourhood. We understand that a meeting of the Magistrates of the barony of Tyrawly was called for this day, to consider of the best means of discovering the perpetrators of the late outrages. Cathy Joynt Labath Celtic Cousins http://www.celticcousins.net/