School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

Location:
Colehill, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Kathleen Morris
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  1. Norris was the landlord for this district. He never lived in this country he was what they called an absentee landlord. Morrow was his agent and resided in this parish with his family in a fine mansion at Corrobulle. The house is now in ruins burned during the nineteen hundred and twenty uprising. Morrow was a tyrant and immoral during his time He evicted ten or twelve families from Killindowd and added the small holdings to his own ranch. It was the stones from the evicted tenants' little home-steads that were used in the building the land agent's mansion. Some of the evicted tenants
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary J. Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Guire
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford