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School: Cluain Fhada (B.) (roll number 15557)

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Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Fathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0248, Page 247

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    The landlords long ago were very
    cruel to the tenants.
    Mr. Pearse was our landlord some years ago, and he was a very cruel man and a greedy man for money.
    He always was looking for work and hurrying to sow the crop.
    He used go from house to house collecting the tenants. It did not matter what work the tenants were at he used bring them with him.
    He used to bring about ten men with him and keep them for one month working hard and his pay was four pence daily.
    He drove a woman named Mary Donelan out of her house and gave her house to a man named Michael Henighan
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Gibbons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Meeltraun (Wills), Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Delia Gibbons
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Meeltraun (Wills), Co. Roscommon