School: Béal Átha Uisce (roll number 4836)
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Séaghdha
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- Long ago there was a landlord by the name of Patrick O'Sullivan living in Milcove. He was not very well liked by the people, because he used to evict them. He had a beautiful house. When the people used go to the house paying the rent they could not look to right or left near it. If they did he would give them a tearing. He ruled the same time as Tom Right, but he had the district from Milcove west to the mines including Eyeries and Bere-Island.
One day he came to evict a woman in Seana-Gort. She had two sons but the landlord thought she was alone. When he came to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Seanacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrymihin East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Máire Ní Néill
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Derrymihin East, Co. Cork
