School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh
- Location:
- Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Seanán
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- (continued from previous page)In those times a man could not keep a horse worth more than five pounds in his possession. If he had, the landlords got it. The landlord used a method known as the "battering ram" which meant getting on top of the house and tumbling it down. Smyth Barry evicted all the people of old Tipperary a place twenty miles from Nenagh.
When an election would be taking place if a person did not vote as the landlord advised them, the rent would be raised or else they were evicted. Miss Dunnalley one day was looking from her window, she saw a man white washing his house, and she told her father, that it spoiled the view of the house at Kilboy, so the man had to smear it with tar.
The "Thite Proctor" for Nenagh was Holmes. He took money or stock which ever the peple had. Clarke was Proctor for Borrisokane, he took so many sheep out of a hundred. At the present day, people are still paying Thites.
George Friend was a bad man, he "pounded the hens" which means if they went on his property, he fined their owner.
All the landlords had twice as much land as they have now. They sold it and are living on the land that is left and pensions from the English Government.- Collector
- Geraldine Mc Craith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pearse Street, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Tipperary