Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. Land Grabbing (continued)

   

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   in every possible way. He exhorted them to be brave and to hold out to the bitter end and their reward was in store for them. He told them to beware of the land grabbers and not to associate with them at all, as he said Kilmore was haver with Orangemen but they went to mass. The landlord owned a large track of land down around Kilmore and wan time the priest was called on a sick call and he had to up across the landlord's land to get to this poor man. That time he went up foot and as he was to crossin' this land the landlord's son tries to stop him but the priest says to him "You stop where you are till I'm coming back" So the man couldn't stir hand or foot and the priest left him standing there for two days and when he came back and released him, and the priest said to him. "You and your father will fill a pauper's grave" and they did. His father died of starvation and the rats

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