School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)

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1. The Landlords (continued)

   

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   early the following morning for Killarney, and as he was going out his own gate, he met a man coming in but he did not take any particular notice. He went on as hard as he could untill he reached the office in Killarney, and when he went in the agent said to him, "You are too late now, a man is gone into your farm." The owner then knew who the man was that he met at his gate in the morning.

   He went home, and when he reached the gate he saw his wife and children by the roadside. He got into a farm which was bounding his own, but it had only the grass of seven cows while his former farm had the grass of about fourteen cows. 'Twas a man named Jiles, a Protestant was sent into the other man's farm.

   The landlords continued their cruelty until a society called the "moonlighters" came in force. They used work by night and sleep by day. They had big guns called [?] which they used hide in a big thick holly bush. They used shoot the landlords, and they were never caught, but one night as they were firing a shot, a boy tore a bit of paper from his pocket to put in his gun, and

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Síle Ní Clúmhán

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ardmore, Co. Cork

   Informant

   John Clifford

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ardmore, Co. Cork