School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Durlas Éile (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Durlas, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: An tSr. Albert
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)their tenants. Evictions were carried out on a large scale in some of the districts. I have been told that the Scullys evicted seventy five families near Tipperary The doors' of those poor and unfortunate people were burst in by what is called a "Battering -ram" The timber underneath the roofs of the houses were cut with saws chains were then put around the roofs and the houses knocked down. It was people that lived in Ballybeg that invented the "Battering-Ram"
- Collector
- Alice Darmody
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Núrd Thiar, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- John Horan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Núrd Thiar, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mary Purcell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Dháith, Co. Thiobraid Árann
