School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)to earn a living for himself and his family.This grievence was so intolerable, about seventy or eighty years ago the fishermen of the upper waters (or as they are called down here "The Cot Men") took the law into their own hands. They came down in large numbers with saws and axes and cut down the salmon weirs. Some of Lord Templemore's tenants went in boats against these fierce assailants and one of them, got their head split open with the blade of a paddle.After this agitation a gentleman in Parliament named Patrick Mc;Mahon (the fishermen still call him Paddy Mc,Mahon M.P.) took up the fishermens interest. He attacked the weirs under the navigation laws and as an obstruction to navigation(continues on next page)
