Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. Song - The Hermit of Coolroe (continued)

   

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   were two of you in it I doubt" said the Wig.
   It was forgotten by the one who is telling the story.
   "I asked for my rent but no rent would they pay
   except 'twas reduced in a terrible way
   Your rent or your farm being always my rule
   On the roadside I flung them out little and big."
   "To Hell or to Connaught Amen" said the Wig.
   The Millar mentioned in the song was the J.P. or Justice of the Peace in Wexford and presided at the Wexford Petty Sessions.
   In ? all the tenants united and none of them would leave their homes so the landlord often was in danger of his life and often times ? to bring guards and bailifs to put out the poor people out on the road. Old grandmothers that were bed-ridden and hadn't been outside their own door for years were ? out bed and and beddin on the side of the road. Before one eviction in ? all the neighbours gathered together and they dug a deep trench in front of the house that was to be thrown down. This trench was about twelve feet square and ten foot deep. When they

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   History Edit

   Date

   15 June 1936

   Item type

   cbe.types.AMH

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir