School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)to the forges of Milltown to be shod the blacksmith’s refused.
14. There was a court held in the courthouse, and the blacksmiths got “a week in jail for every nail”.
15. They refused to take her money, for her threats they did not care and they would rather go to jail then, than shame the County Clare.
16. While they were in jail their families were well kept by the people of the parish.
17. After the blacksmiths came out of jail there was a great welcome for them in Milltown.
Written by Arthur McKenzie who got this information from Cornelius Toomey who lives in Church Street (40yrs)
- About the year 1849 the landlords were evicting the people out of their houses. There was a great eviction in Spanish Point by Mrs Burdett Moroney. Mrs Moroney was the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eddie Sharkey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Mac Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Kilcorcoran, Co. Clare
