School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)has it divided into farms. Some of the people who were evicted did not go to America. They went to Keelagh instead. Some of their decendants are getting farms in Drumard Jones now.The people could only cut a certain amount of turf nor they could not till the land without his leave. One time a family by the name of Kane, whitewashed their house without asking his leave. So he made them blacken it again. There was a tithe collected with every rent. The people never made a battle against the landlord in my district.He was very fond of feasting and parties and he used to keep his wife down in a cellar because she was not of as noble a family as he. O'Carolan the great poet visited him on several occassions during the feasting. He went through all his wife's money and his own. Then he lifted a big sum of money on the land, and from the Church Body. He then burned the house and had to live in one of the tenant's houses whom he did not treat so well during his reign. This man by the name of Costello had a tithe deed and if Jones signed it he could leave his farm free for ever. Jones was so bad in himself and so loyal to England where all the "Rack Renters" went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hackett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr C. Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
