 According to press reports of the time, over 50,000 people attended, many coming from as far away as Co. Galway, although the attendance would have been larger had there not been confusion about whether or not the meeting was cancelled.Although local folklore states that Daniel O' Connell attended the meeting, it is almost certain that he was not present as he was attending parliamentary debates in Westminster at the time.A semi-fictional account of the meeting was given by Samuel Lover in "Legends and Stories of Ireland" (1834), where he refers to a mock 'burial' of the tithes by local peasantry.