School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)

Location:
Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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    Sir William Hopescott was the landlord over this territory years ago his assistant was John Blake.

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    some of the money & said the people never paid the rent at all and the landlord at once evicted these people. A lot of these people imigrated to America. The landlord also gave the people work in planting a forest but the wages were only four pence a day. This forest was burned some years later. If the people that time broke up a
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph O' Malley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gortbaun, Co. Mayo