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School: Mercy Convent, Monasterevan (roll number 15769)

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Monasterevin, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Sr M. Stanislaus
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    fifty families out of their little homes of small farms and burned their houses and levelled their walls to the ground and the hedges and fences between them and made big farms for himself.
    Rose Hughes,
    Ballintogher,
    Monasterevan.
    Told to me by me father.
    Stephen Hughes,
    Ballintogher,
    Monasterevan.
    Dec 1938 About 56 years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. fires (~306)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballintogher, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Stephen Hughes
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 56
    Address
    Ballintogher, Co. Laois