School: An Clochar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 4268)
- Location:
- Doneraile, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Mná Rialta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 250
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- Garret Nagle was the local Landlord of Shanballymore. For ten years the family were settled in the district. Ten hard years of sufferings to the tenants meant, because the landlord was cruel and tyrannical, and he caused many evictions.
Occasionally two or three families were rendered homeless and they had to emigrate to America.
Queen Victoria sent to Ireland special men to take possession of a certain area of ground. Those men were called landlords. All the land was divided into two plots. Big farms and small ones. Those who owned the big farms were the gentry or "Ascendancy" and those who possessed small farms were the native tenants. Very seldom the farms were sub-divided except in cases of marriages. If a farmer's son wished to be married, a house should be erected at the end of the farm. Mr. Humphrey Griffin's land of Kilbrack, Doneraile was sub-divided between his two sons(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bidsie Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Cork
