School: Béal an Dá Chab (roll number 14225)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd O Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 353
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- A man named Swanton was the Landlord of the town of Ballydehob. This family have been over two hundred years at least Landlords. They were middling good landlords. There were seven farms under this Landlord. They used not to put any one out of his farm. It was not the Landlords that built the town of Ballydehob, but the tenants. It was the Landlords that divided the land into farms. Long ago when a man had a big farm he used to divide it between his sons. The Landlord had(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Cork
