Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0173
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“The evictions in Carrowkeel war wan o' the big events in this disthrict long 'go.”
The evictions in Carrowkeel war wan o' the big events in this disthrict long 'go. Only for them, many o' the families livin now in the townlands of Gurlisheen an' Heapstown, would be livin' up there sthill.
It was about the year 1867 that these evictions occoured. The tenants on the Carrowkeel eshtate was undher King-Harman, an' its seems that there was some discontentment about the bailiff, that was workin, for King-Harman, an' Father Owen Sweeney that was at that time Parish priest in Ballinafad wrought it round, that it was wan o' the local proteshtants(continues on next page)