School: Doire na Cathrach, Dúnmaonmhuighe (roll number 13543)

Location:
Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Risteárd Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0306, Page 030

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    Evictions were also very common in those days and the battering-rams were often put to work throwing down the houses of the poor people. Those people and their families had to take shelter in the workhouses but some of them built little huts of their own on the sides of the roads for there was another type of man called the land-grabber who was watching to butt into their holdings the minute they would leave it, and this encouraged more evictions.
    "The land-lord came down like a wolf on the fold,
    Ere the bones of poor Norry were stiff with the cold
    The soldiers and police kept watch o'er the scene,
    And that's how they suffered in loved Gleannachroim
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Teresa Hurley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Hurley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork