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School: Mayne (roll number 12433)

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Mayne, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Margaret Percival
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0720, Page 110

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    About the year 1846 the farmers were unable to pay rents owing to failure of crops in the famine years. A great portion of Westmeath was owned by the Duke of Buckinham who sold out his property in different portions to different men who became the landlords.
    Some of them were very good to their tenants and some proved very bad. On some of those properties "wholesale" was carried out in order for the landlords to come and live on it. In Ballinscarry, Tullystown Co. Westmeath there were twenty one families evicted on one day. Their houses were knocked down and walls
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Una Walker
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bawn, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Thomas Walker
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Bawn, Co. Cavan