School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0673, Page 056
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Díseart, Droichead Átha
- XML Page 056
- XML “The Landlord”
- XML “The Landlord”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Sir John Robinson was the landlord of our district. The family had been settled in the district since the year 1500.
He was a good landlord and he never evicted anyone. The land was divided into farms.
They were punished for trivial things, but he only charged them a penny.
He used to give the people a glass of whiskey when they would pay the rent, and at Christmas he would give the poor people a cart full of coal.
- Sir John Robinson gave the people dinner when they would go to pay the rent and every year any of he people that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mildred Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Thornogs, Co. Louth
