School: Bracknagh (2)
- Location:
- Bracknagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giobúin
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- (continued from previous page)of these families went to America.
To torment him, the people would not wok for him and anyone that did so was boycotted.
It was said that when one man was going to pay the rent he had to borrow a coat, as his own was too good, and the landlord might charge him more.
Those were hard times in Ireland and he landlords must have been the same all over the country, as the old song shows us,
The landlord and the sheriff came,
To drive us all away,
The rents and taxes were to pay,
I could not them redeem.
And that's my boy the reason why
I left old Skibbereen.
- Collector
- Margaret Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonbrock Lower, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonbrock Lower, Co. Offaly
