Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Baggot Estate about 1800 or 1790 (continued)

   

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   months take." The Protestant Tenants who were given over these Ranches were living in great style, beyond their means. on money borrowed from Banks: They lived at ease (on the hard labour of the Catholics) by taking in on the ranches grazing of cows, calves. asses. etc from their poor Catholic neighbours the Protestant Rancher was enabled pay the rent of the ranch. Very often, the Rancher did not live on the ranch but in another part of the Country 10 to 20 mls distant in a beautiful mansion surrounded by workmen and servants. They came to shoot and hunt over the Ranches with the Land lords. The Catholic families had very small 'Holdings'. Unable to feed their cow on their small farm, or have a supply of hay for the Cow and ass (or horse) necessity forced them send their cow, horse or ass to graze on the ranches held by Protestants, who, assumed great pomp and looked down on the Catholic. Consequently as a result, the Catholic People developed an, Inferiority of Complex, and had at all times, 'Hats off to the Protestants.'

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