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Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

Date
1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0225

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  2. Eviction Scenes at Castletown

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    {Mise: "You mean to say the tenant could be evicted even if the rent was paid?"
    M. Quirke. To be sure. It happened hundred of times. All the land-lord had to do was to pay or pretend that he wanted the land and out you went. The police & sheriff and soldiers collected at Casteletown some years ago. . . . . To be sure. It was in the Land League days.They were going to put out at least half a dozen families. The priests were there. It was near being very serious. Why, one of the priests had the book open, and was on the point of starting to read. Father O Donnell of Doon was there and Father
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    History Edit
    Date
    27 October 1937
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
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