School: Drumcar (roll number 16771)
- Location:
- Drumcar, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Mrs Bell
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0671, Page 129
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumcar
- XML Page 129
- XML “The Landlord”
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
- The landlord in this estate was Bolton and he lived in Bolton Castle on Tully donnell Hill -
He was rarely in Ireland - but his tenants said he was a kind good man, but he had a terrible agent named Tatlow - who would do very cruel unjust things to the tenants, were it not for the landlord.
In the memory of the old residents there was only one eviction - that of Paddy Meade for non-payment of rent - and he was re-instated at once when his broker paid the arrears of rent.
The last owner of the castle only visited his estate here once - and that time he visited every house on the estate - and sat down at the fire and lighted his pipe and in one house their was a pot of boiled potatoes on the hearth and he took up one and split it and ate it -
The rent was never accepted in kind here.
