400 Snider Rifles for County Clare, 1868

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Clare Journal, Thur 6 Feb 1868:

Arming the County Constabulary with the Snider Rifle. On Wednesday (yesterday), a number of packages, containing 400 Snider Rifles, arrived in this town from Cork by the half-past eleven o’clock train, in charge of Head Constable Mills. They were conveyed from the station to the police barracks by a powerful escort of constabulary, under the command of A. Curling, Esq, Sub-Inspector. The number of men in the county amounts to 398, and we understand the arms will be immediately served out to them.

Sheila