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School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)

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Skerries, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
T. Mc Namee
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0785, Page 141

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    The Local Landlord.
    Skerries, Co. Dublin.
    Lord Holmpatrick is the present landlord and his forefathers were the farmer landlords. Long ago the O'Leary's were evicted for not paying their rent. Some of the family went to America and the others stopped in Ireland. The descendants of these O'Leary's are living in Whitestown and Skerries.
    Over fifty years ago the Rush people and Skerries people fought over the taking of sea-weed by the Rush people off the shores of Skerries. Here is a song made up by the Rush people at that time:-
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Leo Derham
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skerries, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mr J. Gough
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Skerries, Co. Dublin