School: Doire na Cathrach, Dúnmaonmhuighe (roll number 13543)
- Location:
- Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Mac Gearailt
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- (continued from previous page)Evictions were also very common in those days and the battering-rams were often put to work throwing down the houses of the poor people. Those people and their families had to take shelter in the workhouses but some of them built little huts of their own on the sides of the roads for there was another type of man called the land-grabber who was watching to butt into their holdings the minute they would leave it, and this encouraged more evictions.
"The land-lord came down like a wolf on the fold,
Ere the bones of poor Norry were stiff with the cold
The soldiers and police kept watch o'er the scene,
And that's how they suffered in loved Gleannachroim- Collector
- Mary Teresa Hurley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork