Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Baggot Estate about 1800 or 1790 (continued)

   

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   of houses in Kearns's Park (Knockodonnell) and one on the opposite side of the road: These tenants were also cleared away. they settled in small houses around the mill at Ballymoe. built huts in bogs. - went on The "Free Emigration," or died during the famine. Their houses were pulled down, fences destroyed, - lands made into large ranches and given to Protestant Tenants.
   If it so happened that a Catholic tenant asked the Landlord for a reduction of rent, or gave up the farm under the impression that by doing so, the Landlord would be inducted to grant him a reduction in his rent. The Landlord took advantage of this opportunity given him - He took over the said farm given up by the Catholic and gave it over to a Protestant tenant. This happened in more than One Instance in The Parish of Ballymoe.
   Thomas L. Baggot. Landlord, had built a Protestant Church in Ballymoe and was anxious to have a Protestant Congregation fill it on Sundays - with this in view, there were at all times, One or more Protestant

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