School: Na Creaga

Location:
Creggs, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam Ó Breandáin
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    Landlords
    The Baggot estate contained the lands of Mallyree, Coalpits, Attyfarry, Gorteenruchan, Slievemuire, Monastermalea. Cappagh and parts of the lands of Killmore, situated in the barony of Killian and County of Galway.
    There were ten houses in Mallyree but the people were not able to pay the heavy rent and the land-lord evicted them. There were ten other houses in Sliabh Muire, and the people were evicted also. There was a man in Mount Mary who would not pay his rent because his house was built on a boundary. One morning the land-lord sent his agents who burned the house in which the man was sleeping and the man perished in flames.
    The place where the house
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tommie Fitzmaurice
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coalpits, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Fitzmaurice
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coalpits, Co. Galway