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| THE SQUARE, DUNGARVAN, CO. WATERFORD. -Dungarvan town is situated in the country of Waterford, twenty-five miles southwest of the city of that name, on the river Colligan, where it falls into the capacious but rather shallow bay. The sketch shows the square in which the Fairs and Markets are held. Of the former, there are four in the course of each year, about the beginning of each season, and the markets are of almost daily occurrence. The town contained in the middle of this century a population of 6,500, but the number, owing to emigration, is now greatly reduced. Dungarvan is much frequented in summer as a sea-bathing resort. It has fairly good hotels and lodging houses. The fishing industry is one of the main supports of the place, but is not nearly as profitable as in former years. The place is noted in recent Irish history as the unwitting cause of the fatal breach between Daniel O'Connell and the Young Ireland section of the Repealers, in July 1846, when the famed orator, Richard Lalor Sheil, who had been appointed Master of the Mint by the Whigs, wass re-elected under O'Connell's auspices, to represent the borough in the British parliament. The Young Irelanders opposed place begging on principle. O'Connell held it was better to have friends than foes in high places, in which he ws inconsistent as a Repealer. Divison and disaster were the result of the quarrel. |
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