School: Pitfield, Inis (roll number 11091)
- Location:
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0606, Page 117
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- About 100 years ago or more the "Terry Alts" were fairly strong in this locality (parish of Clondegad). They were giving a great deal of attention to the land-grabbing fraternity and landlord class, so much so that the government authorities in Ennis sent out a posse of soldiers under a seargent to try and capture some of them and collect as much information of the society as they could. On a Sunday morning early they arrived in the townland of Lavalla (Lavally) west of the Abhann Sliabh or Clondegad River. They raided a house belonging to a man named Martin Gavin and took away with them a white bandle-cloth shirt and a pair of long stockings and then continued to Breaffa where they met a man named Ryan putting a "brath" in a kiln.
They asked him, "How far does this road lead"?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Meaney
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Clare
