Scoil: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (uimhir rolla 10731)
- Suíomh:
- Knockcarron, Co. Luimnigh
- Múinteoir: Tomás Ó Dúthaigh
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0512, Leathanach 211
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“The four local estates were Brackile, Coolnapisha, Reask, and Cross. The landlords of those estates were men that were led by their agents, and the agents, in turn, were spurned on by their land-bailiffs...”
The four local estates were Brackile, Coolnapisha, Reask, and Cross. The landlords of those estates were men that were led by their agents, and the agents, in turn, were spurned on by their land-bailiffs. The latter were the chief cause of trouble on every estate always, trying to get either himself or some friend into his neighbour's homestead, if the latter was unable to pay the rent when it became due. In the townland of Coolnapisha about eighty years ago, a man named Ryan, when paying his rent, asked to be compensated for the loss of a cow. The agent turned to him + asked what became of the price of the eight or ten pigs he has sold a few days previously - useful information from the bailiff Hayes. The agent was John Henry Weldon of Kilmallock - the greatest scourge that ever trod this Island. On another occasion when the tenants on the Coolnapisha estate applied for a reduction in rent, (about fifty-five years ago) he boldly told them that £3 per acre was not rent for a bog. He put £3 per care on them with the result that three of the tenants - Hammersley, Ryan, and Franklin - were evicted in 1882. The Land Corporation took over their land for some time, but were working at a loss, and after sixteen or seventeen years, the evicted tenants once again became occupiers of their farms, and the landlord, his agent, and his bailiff are all gone! The same treatment was meted out to the Tenants on the(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)