School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

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1. The Landlord (continued)

   

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   with any one unless he had to do it. My father lived in Ballcomoyle Co Westmeath and the name of the landlord that was over that district was Lady Johnston and she was a very good landlord was the first in Co Westmeath to give a reduction of the rent 5/- in the pound. She gave a lot of employment on drainage of a river that ran through her property a tributary of the rive Gloire, and she gave a Subscription to Castlepollard chapel and the priest erected a window with her coat of arms and it is clear to be seen on it yet, But we now live in Baltrasna Oldcastle Co Meath and we have not to pay any landlord my father pays it in the bank and then it goes to the land commission.
   Written by Eithne Kearney Baltrasna Oldcastle Co Meath
   told by my Father

   

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2. The Landlord

   

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   II
   There are not as many landlords in the country now as there were long ago.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mollie Mc Cabe

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Murrens, Co. Meath