School: Clooncullaun (roll number 13163)
- Location:
- Clooncullaan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Liam Mac Leastair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 216
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- The local landlord in this district in olden times was Lord Hartland. The family name was Pakenham - Mahon and the family seat was Strokestown Park.
The family it is said settled there at the time of Cromwell's Plantation nearly three hundred years ago.
A big tract of country was walled in by a wall eight to ten feet high and inside were planted hundreds of thousands of trees surrounding a great deer - park.
On the whole the family was benevolent to the inhabitants of the adjoining town and to the people of the country side of which they owned a very large tract.
There was however one exception. The head of the family about a century ago was severe and unsympathetic with his tenantry and it is said that he made whole-sale clearances after after and during the famine years. Owing to the extreme poverty of the people he evicted them from their homes on their failing to pay his rack-rents. This earned for him a certain evil reputation and during the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John White
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Elphin, Co. Roscommon
