School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- An Ghráinseach Mhór, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0946, Page 063
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- From the years 1860 to 1884 the farmers around Innishammon had to pay very severe rents which sometimes the land had not earned. Our landlord was called Fiddes. A man named John McAree who had 18 acres of land in the townland had to pay £38 rent every year. A Hamill family living in Nart were evicted in 1849 because they were not able to pay a rent of £30 a year on a farm of 12 acres. They went to America.A man named Scott who lived in Seloo had a farm of 15 acres, and paid £36 of rent a year. In the year 1868 he cleaned some drains and cut hedges, and before long his rent was raised to £41.It is said that the family of Scholes came from county Down and that the Guthries came from county Derry.
- Collector
- Patrick Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inis Samháin, Co. Mhuineacháin
