School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 144
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- The Landlord
About the year 1855 there was great excitement round Castleblayney and the police were very busy. Templeton was the landlord and his agent resided in Coratanty on the Moded [?Model?] farm now owned by Mr. James McBennett (by the tenants) and about two miles from the town. He was not very well liked by the tenants and although he had often promised to lower their rents yet he had never done anything to relieve them one dark Winter night as he was going to his home from town he was waylaid by three or four men. He always wore a coat of mail but these men had a huge iron bar and they battered his head with it until they killed him. Bateson pleaded for mercy and said if they spared him, he would do much for them but they did not heed his cries. When they had him killed (him) they exchanged coats to prevent their being known and they ran off. The bar with which they killed the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence E. Harrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr R. Harrison
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Farm Hill, Co. Monaghan
