School: Creewood (roll number 5331)

Location:
Creewood, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Chearnacháin
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    special day set apart each year as a holiday and have a shilling to each child in the school and a suit of clothes to the tenants children. There never were evictions. The landlord gave an untenanted farm to the most needy people on the estate for a grazing plot for their cows which has been given to the same type of people to this day. The landlady had power to evict tenants even though the rent was payed.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lily Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath
    Informant
    James Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath