School: Errill, Ballybrophy (roll number 928)
- Location:
- Errill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0828, Page 392
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- (continued from previous page)but his agents were tyrants. There were some evictions carried out in the district.
A story is told of how four orphan girls were evicted by an agent of Castletown's. They were very poor and they were not able to pay the rent of the one acre of ground which they owned. They were not put out of the house but the land was taken from them. They had potatoes sown in it but they were not allowed to take any of them.
One day when they were starving with hunger they went out and dug some of them. They put them down to boil and then sat down waiting till they would be cooked. When they were cooked the agent(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Domhnall O Banáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Errill, Co. Laois
