School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar

Location:
Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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    it was the second largest "estate property" in Ireland. If the tenants had not the money to pay the rent they asked the agent to give them time to get it. He often gave them six months or a year in order to provide the rent.
    A butler of Lord Lurton came out one Good Friday morning to where the men were working with a bone in his mouth to show the little respect he had for our Saviour. One of the men took up a stone and knocked the bone out of his mouth. The butler got the
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English