The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

A FACTION FIGHT•

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At the Killaloe petty sessions, a few days ago, 18 persona
were summoned for having been engaged in a faction fight
on the 26th ult. Two families, naized Connella and Skebans,
had a long-standing dispute about the righ ant to acre of
land, resulting in protracted litigation aod m. any collisions.
They are all related as fiat and second cons;ns. The priest
and the landlord vainly sought to reconcile then.: ; the latter
even divided the piece of land between them, but all to no
purpose. When they met they fought, and at a place called
Fahybridge, on the day mentioned, they had an engage-
ment which, both for the vigour of the onslaught and the
number of casualties, completely eclipsed all that had pre-
ceded it. It appeared that the fight was originated by the
Skebans. Among other acts it was sworn that a lad about
16 or 17 went behind Michael Connell with a stone, and
felled him to the ground. The fight then raged with inde-
scribable fury. Pitchforks and other weapons were used,
and such was the fury of the combatants that they broke
the handles of some of the instruments on each other's per-
sons; loaded whip-handles prostrated those they struck,
and stones flew in every direction. The melee ended at
length more through the exhaustion of both parties than
any other cause. Many of the combatants were left "ewe •
less on the ground.
'rho Clare Freeman describes the parties on both sides
.as
belonging to the respectable class of farmers, and comp
ing all ages, from the grey-headed man of threescore years
to the young giri and boy of 16. They were all haleo,nhee.aocn
rLy
and comfortably-dressed persons, and nearly everyh b
some marks of the savage affray in which (hey ad been
w such brut;....
engaged. The magistrates said they never B`L
lity in their lives. The prisoners
conduct was a ,dis and their
should have been expected to quell 8"
Sentences of from
two months to I hrt:grace to the
t w;th hard labour
were thehvaerryopersons who
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the combatants, the
most guilty of
were passed upon th,'
others were bound to ke. (ountryn.

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to them, and the crow of the lord and master has been .a mosphere would oppose to its motion, at any given speed,
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