School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)

Location:
Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Deagha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 463

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  1. The name of the landlord of my father's farm was Mr. Brown.
    He ws about seventeen years in Glenamaddy.
    The people thought he was very hard because he used evict people. He used have authority over the tenants.
    The people who used to be evicted used to go to England and America if they had money and the others used to go out on the side of the road begging or go into workhouses.
    They used knock the poor people's houses that were nto able to pay the rent and drive them out of their houses.
    It was the landlords who used divide the land among tenants the land among the tenants.
    Tithes used be collected in this district long ago.
    It was mostly money and cattle that used be collected.
    The landlords agent that used collect them.
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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
    Patrick Gannon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Scotland, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Pat Gannon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Scotland, Co. Galway