Scoil: Baile an Mhuilinn
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- Baile an Mhuilinn, Co. Shligigh
- Múinteoir: Rós Nic Airchinnigh
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0157, Leathanach 398
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- XML Scoil: Baile an Mhuilinn
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- XML “Local Happenings - Eviction - The Seven Cartrons”
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- A little over one hundred years ago Sir Robert Gore Booth of Lissadell, a descendant of a Cromwellian settler named Booth brought odium on his name by a wholesale eviction which he caused to have carried out in the townland of Ballygilgan called locally "The Seven Cartrons". It was Church-land belonging originally to the monastery of Drumcliffe and like most of the Church-land was granted at the disolution to John King ancestor of the Kings of Rockingham. The "Crowbar Brigade" were let loose on the townland and eight hundred acres of rich arable land were annexed by Sir Robert.The only compensation which the unfortunate evicted tenants received was to have their passage to America paid at the rate of £2 a head. They were all placed on board a leaking boat called the "Pomano" ? and all were lost. In the opinion of some it was a relief to these poor people who were hounded down by the ruthless hand of the wrack-renters of the day.Most of the blame for these proceedings(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
