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   “Memories of the old Earl of Leitrim and of his son...”

   

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   surroundings and he charged him a pound an acre for it because he didn't like him (You know he had another son Charles who was to be his heir and he was in Dublin the night of the Big Wind in '39 and had to sit in his coach all night and he got a cold and never got out of it and died) His other son was now the heir and in order to keep the people from takin out leases he went from house to house on the estate which was to be his and told them no land was worth what they were paying for it but when he became owner he summoned all the Tenants to the Rent office and doubled the rents in the majority of cases and when after putting rack rents on tenants he'd always say "The weightier I load you the tamer you'll pull" and the fine James McCaffrey (the ould nailer) took that land in Drandarb from "Smadán" Slack who lived where Hughie Geehrans old house now is Slack had it in his agreement that he'd have the run of two goats on McCaffrey's land and when Lord Leitrim bought [?] "You know it wasnt his at the time" and when McCaffrey went to pay the rent he told his

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   J. Flynn

   Address

   Drumdart, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Owen Mc Gann

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   75

   Address

   Killamaun, Co. Leitrim