School: Gráig na Muilte Iarainn
- Location:
- Woodford, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Tomás T. Ó Muirgheasa
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- (continued from previous page)a farm, from which a man had been evicted.It was not fair to boycott Fahy, because he only went back to his own farm. His descendants are living there yet, but have built a new house where the Fort stood.The people who were evicted went to live in hills erected by their neighbours, who also gave them money to live on. Most of those huts are gone, or are not in order to lived in. W+Two are yet to be seen outside the village of Woodford and there are people living in them yet.A son of Saunders is living about two miles from the fort and about a mile from the Rossmore Jetty.The old Fort is situated about three miles south of Woodford It is about half a mile from Looscaun Church.Nearly all the people that lived around Looscaun and the Shannon were evicted by Clanrickard, but some of the people paid the rent to him.
