School: Abbeyleix Convent (roll number 13613)
- Location:
- Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mother Paul
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- (continued from previous page)home escorted by thirty men from the surrounding district. For this he received two months imprisonment in Kilkenny Gaol. When he was released he got back his lands and lived there with his family ever since.
- In the year 1882 there were a number of families living in Ballymullen on the De Vesci Terrace. A man by the name of Griffith came down and valued the land. This commissioner told the people not to pay a penny more than what he valued it at. Lord De Vesci refused to take less so a number of families were evicted. Two of those went to America and died there. The other families were given wooden huts, and never got back their house
- Collector
- K. Deegan
- Gender
- Female