It was exactly two hundred years ago this week that disaster struck during a wedding celebration in Mitchelstown when more than thirty people died following a fire in a barn at the Chamberlain residence a few miles outside the town at Kildrum.
Members of the Chamberlain family locally will gather with direct relations of those who died in the fire at the farm now owned by the O’Sullivan family, to commemorate the event …
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