School: Druim (roll number 16557)
- Location:
- An Droim, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0276
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Druim
- XML Page 0276
- XML “An Eviction Scene”
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
- (continued from previous page)inhabitants were admitted to their old home.
Evictions were quite frequent in the Woodford district years ago. It was on account of the poor land that the people were not able to pay the rent.
On one occasion, a number of neighbours and policemen were collected. There was great confusion and a youth saw a policeman strike a smaller boy. He at once rushed forward and knocked the policeman with a baton. He was arrested and imprisoned. He pined away in Kilkenny jail where he was starved for the offence.
- Collector
- Tess Rafferty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- An Learga, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Mrs Catherine Rafferty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
