School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)give employment to the people as they were very poor.
Wages were very small, people were working for four-pence per day.
Whiskey was sold at three pence a naggin a that time before duty was put on.
The time of Cromwell the government gave the the land to his soldiers, and made landlords to them, and then these landlords got rich with every farmer paying his rent to them.
Cromwell went around to the landlords and asked them who they were, and it is said the half of the English army went with Cromwell and any one who went he gave them a a big place to live in.
These men were the men or lords, all famers were paying their rent to.
It is said Cromwell went to Lord Gormanstown and asked him who he was, he said he was Lord Gormanstown to day, who ever he would be to-morrow.
Cromwell said he would be Lord Gormanstown to-morrow, because he had food & tables ready for Cromwell's army.
- Collector
- Donal Hay
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmore, Co. Louth
