School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- Collector
- Patrick Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonagh East, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Coonagh East, Co. Limerick
- About fifty years ago there was a landlord in Meelick called Edward Frost. He had six sub-tenants. He inherited the land from his father. He evicted the tenants out of their houses for not-paying the rent, and then he himself was evicted, because he was not able to pay the rent of his own land. When Edward Frost was evicted his sub-tenants were let back into the houses again under Lord Conyngham.
Up to the time of the disestablishment; tithes were paid to an official who used to collect. They were paid in cash. At the(continues on next page)