School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Briain
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- During the penal times the local people suffered very much. Protestant ministers had to get one-third of all farmer's cattle, sheep, horses, bonhams, pigs, hay, corn, potatoes, turnips, mangolds. Everything the farmers had the minister should get one third of it. These things that the minister got were called thithes.
A man who was called "Proctor" used to gather the thithes for the minister.
The local people used say:-
Blue grows the Proctor O!
He lives by extorsion O!
When he's in want he
causes cant,
The heaving thieving
Proctor.
The thithes that were collected were taken to a big field in Gurraneamudagh near Crookstown. The protestants were(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Creed
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aherla More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Cornelius O Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aherla More, Co. Cork