School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)

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   “About three hundred years ago there was no Parish of Lattin there.”

   

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   When Smith died he left it to his son and his son became a Protestant and he was left keep his lands. JOhn Damer came over to live in Mount Bruis. He was wanting Margaret Poe to marry him but she did not want him. One day he carried her up to the hill to show her all he had but she did not care. He wanter her to live with and when he would die he would leave her all but she wouldn't. He started building the Court to try to cox her, she went over to live in the Court but she did not stay there long she went away and then he went away as well. Then the Court began to fall when they were nobody living in it, the Court was a lovely building it covered an acre of ground a little of it only remains now.

   There was a famine in Ireland in 1740 the people used have to pay rack-rents to the land lords they had nothing to eat but potatoes, and green dog-leaves and they used turn green from eating them. And they could not eat anything, they used have to sell the eggs to pay the rent. In 1742 the crop failed the people were dying with starvation and cattle got very dear and the land-lord and his baillife avicted every one either they paid the rent or not. The people were dying in thousands and nobody to bury them and the dugs used come and eat their bodies. But the people were not to badly of in Shronell because Darner was killing a lot of bullocks because he was buillding the Court and he wanted to put the blood in the mortar. And he used to give all the people around Shronell and Lattin the meat of the cattle and Darner had a lot of men employed building the Court.

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   L. O' Cathain

   Gender

   Male