School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 163
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- Sir Montague Chapman was landlord over this district. He was in this district for over forty years. He got the land from his people. His ancestors got it from Cromwell. It was divided into farms. The farms were not subdivided among the family on marriage.
There were very few evictions. The evicted people went to the work houses. He was not considered too good or too bad. There were no tithes collected. there were no fights. the landlord had the power to evict people from their houses. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Seán D'Arsaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bean Uí D'Arsaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath