School: Cooleenbridge, Scariff
- Location:
- Poulagower, Co. Clare
- Teacher: T. Mac Seóín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 051
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- (continued from previous page)every available article of furniture against their doors so that there would be no chance of breaking them in. From the top stories boiling gruel and water was thrown on the soldiers who were trying to break the doors with battering-rams.
In some of the houses they were repulsed but in others the poor tenants were evicted. Some of the tenants went to other countries and there either got a position or perished of hunger and want.
Some of the people who remained at home built lean to sheds against walls and ditches and here lived in the most abject state of misery and poverty. The good parish priest of the place, Father - stood faithfully by his people and did all in his power to ease their sufferings by pleading and remonstrating with the Landlord but his work was of little avail.
The news of this terrible deed was noised abroad and the name Colonel O'Callaghan became a by-word amongst the people for cruelty.
