Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0259
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- (continued from previous page)Arts and Craft School there - 'the lads in the Laurels as the P.P. calls them. He has no great love for them because they say Mass too chief. If you offered him 5/- or 10/- to get a Mass said, he'd say 'take that to the lads in the laurels.
[Even as late as 1914 Sir Charles had big Scotch bullies to drive visitors off the estate. They closed(chased?) me in 1914 - P.M.D - and they shot a hound dead on.............. although he had the dog on lease, about the same time.
M.Flood: Like Mauds of Dundrum, Barrington would only allow one pub., one forge, one carpenter's shop - only one of everything. On one occasion a tenant whitewashed his farm house without permission. Barrington made him blacken it again. If a tenant wanted to break a field he had to consult Barrington.
Joseph Hammersly: " That was the rule all over, them times".
The Agent came to collect the Rent at Cahernahallis Lodge. All the tenants came with the rent but when ...................turn
came he was told to stand back. When all the rent except his was collected the agent sent for him 'You have a grey-hound' says he...................knew there was no good in denying when he saw how quick the senging(?) had gone. "I can't take your rent until you destroy that greyhound. He had to go and destroy him or be evicted(continues on next page)
