Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0463, Page 0161
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- (continued from previous page)Parson Blunden and Sanford (landlord) gave the poor people contracts such as supplying Cofffins for the Inmates of the workhouse in Castlerea during the famine years. Contracts for selling artificial manure. Work as -- skavengers, road makers, game keepers, saddlers, ploughmen etc - and kept up a well supplied Soup School. Sandford (Landlord) was severe on the Catholic Religion - on Priests, and would not allow a Convent for them built on his estate. This accounts for so many Protestant families living around Ballinlough and Co. Roscommon - Their forefathers were Catholics.See no 1. M. SS. For Sandford Landlord - Story given by an old man and his wife.