School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs. E. J. Roberts
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- (continued from previous page)soliders. He remembers a big bullock being driven out on the road with a notice "The land for the people and the road for me" on his horns. These landlords had to sell to their tenants in the days of the Land League.
Hussy owned almost the whole parish of Kilmainham Wood, he lived at a place called "The Naul", Co. Dublin, and came down each year to collect the rent. He was hated chiefly because of a head tenant he had, named ___, who spied on everyone and told the landlord if anyone made any money. Then the rent was raised. He was so hated that he was fired on once, but was not killed. Before the Famine many of the richer tenants used to go to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dorothy Mc Whirter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlayne, Co. Meath
