School: Knockjames

Location:
Knockjames, Co. Clare
Teacher:
(name not given)
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  1. 24.
    Moon lighters.
    1st.June,1938.
    Long ago the genkle men were notified by souldiers to give up big farms of land,and to have them divided amongst the poor people. Some of them would not to do that.Their horses and cattle were hunted of the roads.The walls of their farms were knocked to the ground .They got these souldiers ,put to jail some of them got twenty years and more of them got ten.
    Bodick Eviction
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Harrison
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr James Harrison
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tyredagh Upper, Co. Clare