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School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)

Location:
Mohill, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Francis Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 061

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    or papered your room there would be perhaps four or five pounds added to your rent. If your window got broken you could put a bag in it, if a tree fell the bailiff came to see if it was cut down, or fell from age. If the tree was a certain quality he took it away, if not you were to let it rot and not use it. I know a house he went into where they were cooking. He got the lid taken off to see what kind it was. He thought it might be a rabbit that was in it. When paying rent you you had to stand in the yard with your hat off, and if sleet or snow were falling it did not matter, and you could not smoke. One day he was driving to Carrick-on-Shannon a short distance from this town, he saw a field dug for potatoes. He stopped his carriage sent for the owner and asked who allowed him to do such a thing. He gave him a week to turn back every sod of his hard labour.
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