School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- There were a great deal of landlords in Ireland about one hundred years ago. Christopher St George was a landlord who live in Tyrone long ago.
He evicted a great deal of his tenants in Crocheen, Ballyvullane, Drumacoo and Newtown who were not able to pay the rent. A family of the O Beirnes were evicted in Crockeen and tey went to America but they died of hunger on their way over.
There was another landlord in Clough named Count Blake,
He evicted a great deal of his tenants too.
The people did not like the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway
