School: Coratillon
- Location:
- Corr an tSileáin, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Michael O' Beirn
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Coratillon
- XML Page 322
- XML “The Local 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
- The name of the landlords around this district was Finlay.
There were three brothers of them, David, Thomas and Francis Finlay.Francis Finlay was looked upon as a bad landlord, but some say that landlords would not commit cruel deeds if their agents had not to force and compel them.The three Finlay brothers bought out townlands, and each of them collected the rent for his own townland or townlands.A story is told of Sir Francis Finlay. Here it is.At this time when the landlords, were in the country, people were forbidden to sell their(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Muinéal, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Mr M. Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Muinéal, Co. an Chabháin