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Arthur Samuel Richardson, a British Army surgeon, died in 1816 at the age of 38 from a wound he sustained in the Officers’ Mess at Dundalk Barracks, as it was known at the time. The fatal injury resulted from a duel with a fellow officer who had allegedly made a disparaging remark about a young woman known to Richardson. He was laid to rest in St. Nicholas Green Church graveyard in Dundalk and holds the grim distinction of being the last man in Ireland to die as a result of a duel. Some accounts suggest the incident was more of a barrack-room brawl than a formal duel, but Richardson’s ghost is said to have haunted the Mess in the aftermath.
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