School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 255
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- Our local landlord was Lord Bath, Bath and Shirley got the big estate around Carrick and our farm is on Bath's estate. They came into possesion of this land in the 17th century. Queen Elizabeth gave the whole estate to Lord Essex. He had two daughters and when he was dying he left the estate to them. One of the daughters married a Shirley and the other married the Lord of Bath and this is how they came to own the land. The estate was divided by a running through Carrick which divided the Main St. and gave one side to each.
All of Baths were supposed to be good and were liked well by the people. When they got these lands they divided them into farms. Farms were never subdivided among members of the family in marriage. The landlord had never any special powers over his tenants(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Anne Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnagunnion, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Burns
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 100
