Incident
In 1831 a fight broke out between a party of armed Irish Constabulary and a crowd at the Castlepollard Fair. A number of people were seriously injured, and some fatalities were reported. Local sources put the number of casualties as high as thirteen. This incident may have been related to the enforcement of collection orders during the Tithe War (1831–1836). Spasmodic violence broke out around this time (particularly in Kilkenny, Wexford, and Cork) when the police entered local fairgrounds to enforce seizure orders on cattle for non payment of tithes. Order was finally restored by rescinding seizure orders in 1836. The subsequent revision of the Tithe Act commuted the levy. The Church of Ireland was disestablished by the Gladstone government in 1869, and the tithe was abolished.
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