School: Moyvore
- Location:
- Moyvore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Kelly
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- (continued from previous page)against the landlord.
Another landlord named Colonel Digby who lived at Ballinacurra. He was not as cruel to the tenants as General Meares.
The tenants had to cut turf, draw it home, sow and dig potatoes and sow crips for the landlords.
Colonel Digby (lived) had houses built for a man named Conlon, and a man named Mee.
The bricks that the houses were built of were made in his own land by his workers. When they were building Colons house the chimney feel in each night for seven nights after, and some people say it was built on a fairy pass.
- Collector
- Carmel O' Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moyvore, Co. Westmeath
- Collector
- Mary J. Murtagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Piercetown, Co. Westmeath
