1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Pallaskenry

School: Pallaskenry (roll number 12631)

Location:
Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tomás Midheach
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0504, Page 385

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0504, Page 385

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Pallaskenry
  2. XML Page 385
  3. XML “Landlords”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Landlords (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    instance. A farm in Castletown was abandoned by the tenant and given to another for merely paying the rates.
    One tenant in the Westropp Estate contested on the ground that his lease was not expired, but it was found to be so.
    The man named Cahill recieved compensation for disturbances. The Westropp family gave employment to many people and built the Ballydoole Bank which measures a mile English and cost eight thousand pounds. Reclaimed one hundred and fifty acres from the Shannon and took four years to complete. Four hundred acres of the Westropp Estate has recently been divided by the Irish Land Commission.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Ballydoole, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    John O Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Mellon, Co. Limerick