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School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)

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Kilbonane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0346, Page 097

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  1. Penal Times

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    During the penal times the local people suffered very much. Protestant ministers had to get one-third of all farmer's cattle, sheep, horses, bonhams, pigs, hay, corn, potatoes, turnips, mangolds. Everything the farmers had the minister should get one third of it. These things that the minister got were called thithes.
    A man who was called "Proctor" used to gather the thithes for the minister.
    The local people used say:-
    Blue grows the Proctor O!
    He lives by extorsion O!
    When he's in want he
    causes cant,
    The heaving thieving
    Proctor.
    The thithes that were collected were taken to a big field in Gurraneamudagh near Crookstown. The protestants were
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Creed
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aherla More, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr Cornelius O Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aherla More, Co. Cork