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School: Béal an Átha Móir (C.) (roll number 13614)

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Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 035

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    My Local Landlord's name was Alexander Persy. He was a Landlord up to about 70 years ago. He was not one of the planters he was one of a family of West Indian merchants. He bought his property off one of the planter Landlord. He was a just man and a good employer of labourers. In the year 1847 he paid men to shore and subsoil the townland of Killadough and Aughatowney. His wife was an English woman with an income of one pound a day but she was able to spend it in one half-day. It was she,
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Chris O Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Address
    Killadough, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Peter O Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Killadough, Co. Leitrim