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School: Ballyhaise

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Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
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T. Plunkett
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    1st. The Philis Thompson and family were landlords for two generations in Owley.
    2nd. They were not good landlords, tyrannical rather.
    3rd. There were evictions on various occasions. Some cleared away on what was known as the free emigration while their homes were burned to the ground and the landlord wanted the evicted farm as a farm for bullocks to ship to England while others of the evicted were returned as weekly tenants or herds at a penny per week to look after the cattle on those farms from
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Greenan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Ouley, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Hugh Mc Cafferty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    71
    Address
    Unshinagh, Co. Cavan