27 OCTOBER 1838, Page 6

On Tuesday evening, Mr. Charles O'Keeffe, an opulent landholder, and

brewer and tanner, resident in Thurles, was shot, when about fifty yards from his own house. The ball, fired from a pistol, entered his left shoulder ; and he expired in a few minutes. Mr. O'Keeffe was a Roman Catholic, but had irritated the peasantry by ejecting some tenants on an estate which he managed, for non-payment of rent.

A bailiff in Lord Lorton's employ was murdered by a party of the peasantry last week. His predecessor in the same place was murdered last January.