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School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)

Location:
Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 540

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  1. An Tiarna Talún

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    Long ago there were lots of people put out of their houses by the cruel land-lords of those days for not being able to pay their rents.
    Their houses were knocked down and some of them were burned by a band of men called the "crow-bar-brigade."
    The poor people that were evicted had to go to England Scotland, and America. Some of them got a free passage on an emigrant ship that came to Killala Bay.
    Some of the very poor people used to wait in tents on the road-side, and poor was the life they lived there in
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Munnelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gallowshill, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Munnelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gallowshill, Co. Mayo