School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)a poor old man because he would not pay the tithes. He was living over at Raffin and he died in a few days after he being put out. Mr Gerrard was going to build a castle at Headstown but then he changed his mind and built it in Gibstown.
- Major Bligh was the landlord in years gone by of this district. He had a man employed for collecting the rent. He used to collect it every half year. If anyone had not the rent they would not be evicted.
- The best known landlord is this district were Mr De Batha, Bligh, Gainsfort, St Lawrence Longfield and Gerrard. Mr Debath was the worse of them all. He evicted a lot of people of Knightstown. His agent was responsible(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Dan Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 37
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath