School: An Clochar, Cathair Saidhbhín (roll number 13542)
- Location:
- Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. M. de Lourdes Stac
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0476, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)the fence, but they were up against their match for Fr. Walsh was said to possess extraordinary power. The priest enraged at being obstructed struck their horses with his whip, capsizing horses and coach into the dyke. There they remained and could not be released until Fr. Walsh sent somebody from Sneem to tell them they might now finish their journey after they had been delayed for many hours. The O'Connells of Derrynane were the owners of nearly all the parish of Caherdaniel until the Butlers of Waterville bought over all the northern half of the parish about 1860. Many of the tenants were not satisfied when the land was given over to the Protestant landlord. The O'Connells were Catholics and Irish while the Butler were strangers, English "Planters". Four families from Basilican near Waterville were evicted because they would not recognise Buter as their landlord. The O'Connells however had reserved some mountain land as hunting ground on the north-east of Waterville Lake. This glen they divided among the evicted families and that is how people first came to live in Clochbhuala. All through the parish of Sneem there are the remains of ruined homesteads which tell us how mercilessly tenants were evicted during Penal Days. There is on an average, one farm to-day where there were four before the famine years.
