School: Boireann
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- Burren, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhriain
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- James Sealy was the landlord of Burren and Cloundereen. He lived int he house now occupied by Ludlow Mahon. The latter's mother is a Sealy. Sealy raised the rent if anyone made the slightest improvement in the farm, built a fence or improved a fiel. He exacted high rents and forbade his tenants to kill rabbits or hares or any birds under pain of eviction.
Baldwin Sealy was the landlord of Ardacrow. He was a hard man. During the Land League days John ONeill of Ardacrow (the father of the present occupier Mrs Hurley-Oneil) refused to pay the rent to Baldwin Sealy. A crowd gathered in the house and filled a barrel of stones for throwing at the soldiers who came to evict ONeill. They put a bull in the back kitchen and of course when the soldiers opened the door he ran out against them and terrified them. Outside the hall door they tied a goat with a card on her horns "Sealy keeps clear,(continues on next page)- Informant
- Cornelius O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonderreen, Co. Cork