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School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)

Location:
Killacrim, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 24_051

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    The Landlord of our district was Lord Listowel. Hewson was only a land owner and was very unkind to his people, but Lord Listowel was a very kind man. Hewson had many tenants under him and evicted many of them. Lord Listowel was a very good man but his agents under him were very bad. Some of Hewson's evicted people went to America and some of them went to live in Listowel and the Land-Leagers built houses for many more of them. Lord-Listowel bought the land from the Fitzgeralds. The knights of Kerry lived in Ennismore at that time. The land
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Dhuilleáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killacrim, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Dillon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ennismore, Co. Kerry