School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 210
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- In the year of 1836 Lord Bantry was the landlord of this district. People tell us now that he was a very harsh man, that he used to seize their cattle and pound them, and also seize their butter which used to be in firkins and sell it at the end of the year and keep the rent out of it and give back the rest. We never heard of him evicting anybody. One time his agent Patrick Sullivan who lived in Milcove made an attempt to come to Beare Island to seize two stacks of barley which was owned by a tenant but he didn't succeed. Nearly all the people of Beare Island, men and women collected together in a strand called "Tráigh Ciarán" and stoned him, and his men, and didn't allow them to come ashore.
Some of the Island men were sent to prison for a good term after. Over eighty-five(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr F. Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
