School: Timahoe (roll number 14486)
- Location:
- Timahoe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: R. O' Byrne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 250
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- (continued from previous page)different estates not to pay any rent until they would get a reasonable reduction on the present one.
Only a couple of cases was a satisfactory agreement reached. The majority of landlords prosecuted, evicted, and even burned their houses.
My Daddy remembers the evictions on Lord Landstowns estate at Luggacurran seeing John Elliot the emergency man holing the roof over Mr. Kilbrides head in Luggacurran, and throwing his furniture out on the road as the result of agitations. Landlords are no happily banished almost altogether.
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“In Mr Loughlin Walsh's house the dresser used to fall every night...”
In Mr Loughlin Walsh's house the dresser used to fall every night and get up again and the plates never broke or any delph was on it did not break.
The pictures, leds, saucepans, tables, chairs, and dorms also fell and got up again.
They could never get butter on a churn of milk if they were to stay churning it from morning till night. The butter would never come on it.
This is a true story. - Informant
- Mr Edward Neill Slatt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Wolfhill, Co. Laois
