School: Cill na dTor, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16254)
- Location:
- Kilnadur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0305, Page 160
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- The old landlords were merely all descendants of the Cromwellian soldiers. Some of them were very tyrannical, but now and again, we meet with rather honourable men. At, that time, and up to Parnell's agitations the farmer had no fixity of tenure. He usually had his farm for eleven months, on the payment of a certain amount, payable at two certain dates. It often happened that the farmer would quit before the termination of these dates and pay nothing to the landlord.
At one time, a certain landlord named Mr. Gollics owned the townland of Kilnadur and was very cleverly outwitted by one of the tenants. The tenant owed a year's rent and was particularly busy in collecting his stock in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Anne Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aultagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Jeremiah Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Aultagh, Co. Cork
