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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Durlas Éile (roll number 4068)

Location:
Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Albert
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    Landlords were people who used to go for rent in olden days and if the people did not pay the rent they would have to leave the house. There was a landlord near our house by the name of James Power, Ballydavid House, Littleton. He was a Catholic once and entered a college to be a priest. A year before his ordination he left and married a protestant girl. The whole family became protestants after a while. Once he went around with a battering-ram and hunted all the people and knocked their houses when they were not able to pay rent.
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    The Goems were the only landlords I ever heard of around Two-mile-Borris. But the Willie Scully's were all over Tipperary. They were very cruel to
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Darmody
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newhill, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Horan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Newhill, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mary Purcell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballydavid, Co. Tipperary