School: Cluain Fhiadh (C.), Carraig na Siúire (roll number 7772)
- Location:
- Clonea, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Cheallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 276
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- The Landlord
Lord Waterford was the landlord of Clonea and around it. He had a big estate of land in Curraghmore, Portlaw. The tenants did not look on him as a bad or cruel landlord, but sometimes he evicted people out of their houses when they would not pay their rent. People that were eveicted had to live with their friends. The landlords got the land from their ancestors. The land was divided into farms.
- Collector
- Alice Hassett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glenstown, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- John Hassett
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Glenstown, Co. Waterford
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“Lord Waterford was the landlord of this district.”
Lord Waterford was the landlord of this district. He didn’t gather the money from the tenants himself. A man named John Kirwan was employed by him to warn the people to pay their rent else they would be evicted, within a certain time, he was called the “Rent Warner”
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