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   “Lloyds were the names of the landlords of my district long ago.”

   

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   Lloyds were the names of the landlords of my district long ago. They were in the district for over two generations. For about the last fifty years of the reign of Lloyd, he was considered a good landlord. Before that the Lloyds tried to make 'supers' of the people - that is by building 'soup-houses' all over the district and gathering all the poor people of the place, who had nothing to eat during the bad times, to them, but in return for the food, the people had to become Protestants. There was a clergy man in the district named Father O Connor, who did not like the idea of the soup houses. One Sunday after last Mass, he ordered all the people to come together, and about

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. riaradh talún (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patty Monaghan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An Corrán, Co. Ros Comáin

   Informant

   Mr Pat Carney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Granny, Co. Ros Comáin