Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Baggot Estate about 1800 or 1790 (continued)

   

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   This state of things went on year after year. the Catholic tenant farmer raising crops each year off their land and having no manure as a result of their cow, calf and ass being 'grazing' on the Ranches, their land became worn out and then the Catholic tenant was forced by circumstance to burn their clay to manure their crops - The clay became poorer year by year - The clay was very poor the time of the Famine, 46-47
   In the Upper end of Knockodonell Farm near Ballymao, there was a village. Thomas L. Baggot, Landlord offered the people of this Village a small sum of money to clear away. - A man, named Griffin, who, had a few pounds left by refused to give up possession. Baggot (Landlord) went to law with him and when the 'few pounds left by' were spent on law Thomas L. Baggot evicted him. No trace of the village now exists. This happened before the famine.
   At this time also there was a Village

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