School: An Clochar, Neidín
- Location:
- Kenmare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brighid Ní Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0461, Page 408
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- (continued from previous page)These farms had rack-rents on them. It was amazing to hear the old people count the numbers of families who occupied these farms in a short space of time. After a year or two each family had been 'broken-up' and had to clear to America.
I think the tenants secured these lands at last under the Encumbered Estates' Act, and they have remained in the families of these latter tenants ever since.
The tenants could scarcely believe that they should be left in undisturbed possession as long as they held to the agreement. So much so that Michael OLeary the tenant who secured the lodge and its field levelled the lodge immediately lest the former owner should return to claim it.
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