Honorara Concannon executed for killing W Higgins (1824)

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Honorara Concannon executed for killing W Higgins (1824)

Post by Paddy Casey » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:02 pm

The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Monday, August 16, 1824 reports that Honorara Concannon was executed for killing W Higgins, an itinerant beggar, on the night of Easter Sunday no less, in Carralhon (sic), County Clare, and cutting up his body to dispose of it.
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