School: Cluain Fhiadh (C.), Carraig na Siúire (roll number 7772)

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1. The Landlord

   

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   The Landlord Lord Waterford was the landlord of Clonea and around it. He had a big estate of land in Curraghmore, Portlaw. The tenants did not look on him as a bad or cruel landlord, but sometimes he evicted people out of their houses when they would not pay their rent. People that were eveicted had to live with their friends. The landlords got the land from their ancestors. The land was divided into farms.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alice Hassett

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Glenstown, Co. Waterford

   Informant

   John Hassett

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Glenstown, Co. Waterford

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   “Lord Waterford was the landlord of this district.”

   

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   Lord Waterford was the landlord of this district. He didn’t gather the money from the tenants himself. A man named John Kirwan was employed by him to warn the people to pay their rent else they would be evicted, within a certain time, he was called the “Rent Warner”
   Two families of Powers who

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