Scoil: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (uimhir rolla 7453)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Landlord

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In the year of 1836 Lord Bantry was the landlord of this district. People tell us now that he was a very harsh man, that he used to seize their cattle and pound them, and also seize their butter which used to be in firkins and sell it at the end of the year and keep the rent out of it and give back the rest. We never heard of him evicting anybody. One time his agent Patrick Sullivan who lived in Milcove made an attempt to come to Beare Island to seize two stacks of barley which was owned by a tenant but he didn't succeed. Nearly all the people of Beare Island, men and women collected together in a strand called "Tráigh Ciarán" and stoned him, and his men, and didn't allow them to come ashore.
   Some of the Island men were sent to prison for a good term after. Over eighty-five

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   Topaicí

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Margaret Sullivan

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr F. Sullivan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ardagh, Co. Cork