Scoil: Bullán (uimhir rolla 13432)

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1. In Olden Times

   

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   In Olden Times

   Once upon a time there lived a woman in a town-land known as Gleann-na-Mealthough, near Dunsandly Station. The station house was no built then. Her husband died leaving a family of five to his wife. She was then known as the Widow Ryan. It was then very hard for the poor widow to manage, as her children were very young, and to make matters worse the rent got up. Then came the tyrants lash from Dunsandle. He should be paid yearly for the widow's holding of nine acres most of it callow-land. The agent Gerald O'Connor came and turned he out, and secured the door with a pad lock. She and her five children remained in a neighbour's field til night fell. Some-body came and broke the lock and let them into the house again. Next morning seven or eight constables came and placed hand-cuffs on the poor woman's wrists. Then he took them before a Magistrate, who then sentenced the poor widow to 14 days in Galway Jail and her son one month. In a few days after that there came an Emergency man with five police to guard him and the police took all her belongings and threw them out on the public road. When she and her son came out of jail they came home collected the neighbours drove out the Emergency and lived there afterwards.

   Got by Pauline Keane, Ballykerin, Bullaun.
   From: My Uncle Bill, same address on the 14-3-38 age 48 yrs.

   

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      1. riaradh talún (~4,110)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Pauline Keane

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Béal Átha Chaorthainn, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Faisnéiseoir

   Bill

   Gaol

   Duine gaolta (nach tuismitheoir ná seantuismitheoir)

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   48

   Seoladh

   Béal Átha Chaorthainn, Co. na Gaillimhe