School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Durlas Éile (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Albert
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- Landlords were people who used to go for rent in olden days and if the people did not pay the rent they would have to leave the house. There was a landlord near our house by the name of James Power, Ballydavid House, Littleton. He was a Catholic once and entered a college to be a priest. A year before his ordination he left and married a protestant girl. The whole family became protestants after a while. Once he went around with a battering-ram and hunted all the people and knocked their houses when they were not able to pay rent.
- Informant
- Mary Purcell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydavid, Co. Tipperary
- The Goems were the only landlords I ever heard of around Two-mile-Borris. But the Willie Scully's were all over Tipperary. They were very cruel to(continues on next page)