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   Historic No 18: Evictions carried out Received following from (1) Robert Mitchell (2) Tombeagh Hacketstown (3) 76 years (4) Farmer (5) Tombeagh (6) May 28th 1935 The great evictions of the town land of Coolmanagh took place over fifty years ago. There were nine or ten families evicted and put out of their farms. The Land League supplied them with huts to live in and the neighbouring farmers gave them food. There was many disturbances, and it was feared that there would be acts of retaliation so there were 150 policemen drafted to Hacketstown and billeted there and also fifty two Hussars in order to preserve peace during the time of evictions. After a couple of years those who were evicted got back to their places

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. riaradh talún (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Robert Mitchell

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   76

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Tom Beithe, Co. Cheatharlach