School: Lisín na hEilte (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Lisheennaheltia, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Séadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 162
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- Long ago there was a lot of landlords in this country. Each landlord owned a piece of land and they used to let the land to tenants and they made the people give them money for the land. The landlord in this property was Mc Donnell. He was not a bad landlord. He used to give food to very poor people. Mc Donnell lived in Roscommon and he had an office in Dunmore. He used to spend three days every week in Roscommon. Mc Donnell bought the property from Connell who lived near the bridge of a Boyounagh.Connell was very cruel to his tenants he used to go to all his tenants and collect the rates from them and he used to evict the people who were not able to pay him and he used to knock their houses. There was a woman named(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Galway
