School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Killyon, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)going to evict you". I will see anyway" said the tenant. When he went up she asked him where he was going. He said he was going to give her the rent. She snatched it out of his hand and evicted him the next day.
Another day a tenant was trespassing in the Big Wood when he was caught, brought in and whipped him barebacked.
People that she had working could not eat their dinner unless they ate it in the wood. She used to poison the nettles on the turkeys lest people would cut them.
She bought all the tinkers caravans, tins, asses and all complete. The Manor yard was full of them.
- Collector
- John Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hill of Down, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Joesph Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killyon, Co. Meath
