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School: Lisdoonan

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 261

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    League. They were punished for trivial acts for instance if they cut a tree they would be punished or if they let their place go down it would taken off them. Shirley used to forbid goats as they would eat the hedges. The people gathered tithes for the landlord in former times and they were gathered in kind.
    The people of these districts objected to pay the tithes and the result was that a fierce fight took place between the tithe collectors and the people. This fight is known as the 'battle of Magheracloone" and is talked about to this day. Soon after the tithes were done away with and the amount of them added to the rent.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mairead Mac Nally
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Owen Mc Nally
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan