School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)

Location:
Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
Teacher:
(name not given)
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    and walked to Cork prison. One man called John O'Sullivan was convicted for twenty four years but his term was reduced to eighteen and he came out of prison as strong as ever. Also there was a local man convenient to Mount Massy, who used to pay the land annuties and grabb the lands so the people called him a grabber. One man and seven children were evicted out of their house and thrown in a bed of straw in the roadside the grabber then said
    At once I was called a land grabber.
    That's a name I wont be any more.
    I'll now give it up altogether.
    And never take land any more.
    When one of those men was evicted.
    No doubt but 'twould grieve your heart sore.
    With his seven all weak little children.
    No doubt but 'twould grieve your heart more.
    I'd be frightened to go out night or morning.
    To go to the market or fair
    Or even to mass on a Sunday
    I'd find no one to speak to me there.
    At once he was called a land grabber.
    That's a name he wont be any more.
    He'll now give it up altogether
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Creedon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromatimore, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr D. Creedon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromatimore, Co. Cork