School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)him was a landlord so that family had being reigning over this district for two centuries. Milltown was only a ranch to his estate which is situated around Rockview. Featherston Haugh did not go around gathering the rent but he had many agents who did the work.
There were no evictions. Some people who did not pay the rent were given three years to take as much use as they could out of the land and then give it up to the landlord.
When Featherston was an old man he sold this ranch to the Land Commission. They divided the land up into farms of about twenty five acres.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Whitehall, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitehall, Co. Westmeath
