Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Allen Pollok's Estates about the Year 1800

   

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   Allen Pollok, Landlord, owned many and extensive properties at Glynsk, (Ballymoe) Creggs, (Roscommon)
   Ballinasloe, Portumna etc. In fact, he was owner of more land than any other landlord in Connaught.
   Before the famine, during the famine, and after the famine, he cleared away poor tenants from their 'holdings',
   In many cases, he evicted the people from their homes, while in other instances, he gave a small sum in money, such as, from £10 to £20 to the tenants to leave their homes and sign over any claim they might have to it.
   to Pollok_ In this way Allen Pollok cleared away hundreds of families, pulled down their homes, levelled the fences and formed big ranches on which he had big houses and

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