 Fovargue had in fact been sent to England by Intelligence Corps Colonel Ormonde Winter to infiltrate the IRA in Britain.Sean Kavanagh, a Kilkenny IRA man, claimed that Fovargue was put in a cell with him in Kilmainham in 1921 in order to try to extract information from him.On 2 April 1921, a boy walking on the golf links of the Ashford Manor Golf Club in Ashford, Middlesex discovered the body of Fovargue, who had been shot through the chest.