John Callaghan (murder victim) was killed at the Fair of Turloughmore, Tuesday 1 August 1843.
[on been shot] ... he fell on his back; he called for a drink which were the only words I heard him speak; I lifted him up, and with the assistance of some friends brought him into my tent and went for the Rev.
The court found Thomkins Brew, Esq., and the police, guilty of wilful murder.
A ballad entitled ”The Sorrowful Lamentation of Callaghan, Greally, (sic)and Mullen” (in An Irish Literature Reader Poetry, Prose, Drama, editors Maureen O’Rourke Murphy & James MacKillop, Syracuse University Press.
There are seven verses given and the opening line is “Come, tell me, dearest mother, what makes my father stay ...”