1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ramonan

School: Ramonan

Location:
Ramonan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Maeve Turner
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 111

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 111

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ramonan
  2. XML Page 111
  3. XML “The Landlord”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Landlord

    Share Share Post
    Our local landlord is Lord Farnham. He lives about a mile from the town of Cavan. The family has been settled there about two hundred years. They were looked upon as being good landlords.
    I heard of one person in my district who was evicted about forty five years ago. He and his children were left to do what they like and another person got his house and lands. The evicted person worked with neighbouring farmers.
    The landlords got their grants of lands either during the time that Cromwell came to Ireland or the time that King William came. Their estates were divided into farms. Farms were redivided among members of families on marriage.
    The landlord had great power over his tenants in
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mildred Tilson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cornagrow, Co. Cavan