School: St Patrick's, Aughnacliffe (roll number 13283)
- Location:
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 254
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- The local landlord for this district long ago was Jimmy Dopping. In the midst of our parish we had one of the greatest tyrant of a landlord whose name shall never be forgotten by the people for miles around. He evicted a man named Mulligan because he married a girl who had a farm on his property. The whole countryside turned out with flags and drums and bycotted him, and the boys all gathered and built a house of sods, on the mearning ajoining the land that he was evicted from. By this time the agitation was in full swing and poor Mulligan was taken as a suspect and imprisoned in Kilmainham jail for twelve months. The house which he lived in after returning from jail was called a "Land League Hut". On his release there were over five hundred people from Colmcille at Ballywillan Station awaiting the coming of this man. That whole(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Eddie Ginty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Aghakine, Co. Longford
