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School: Timahoe (roll number 14486)

Location:
Timahoe, Co. Laois
Teacher:
R. O' Byrne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 250

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    different estates not to pay any rent until they would get a reasonable reduction on the present one.
    Only a couple of cases was a satisfactory agreement reached. The majority of landlords prosecuted, evicted, and even burned their houses.
    My Daddy remembers the evictions on Lord Landstowns estate at Luggacurran seeing John Elliot the emergency man holing the roof over Mr. Kilbrides head in Luggacurran, and throwing his furniture out on the road as the result of agitations. Landlords are no happily banished almost altogether.
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    “In Mr Loughlin Walsh's house the dresser used to fall every night...”

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    3. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    4. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr Edward Neill Slatt
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wolfhill, Co. Laois