Offaly County Ireland Archives News.....Evictions - Kings County September 22, 1849 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/copyright.htm http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ ************************************************ File contributed for use in Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives by: Mary Heaphy tipwex@eircom.net April 17, 2009, 10:37 am Freemans Journal September 22, 1849 From the Freeman's Journal-Sept 22nd 1849. A correspondent who dates his letter, Clogan, September 10th has furnished us with a list of evictions from the property of the Earl of Ross, a landlord said to be worth 34,000/., a year. The following are the names of the persons evicted, with the numbers of individuals in each family, and the number of acres held by each. The town land of Newtown. William Kelly, 6 in family, with 12 acres. James Lynch, 6 in family, with 12 acres. Stephen Kelly, 8 in family, with 6 acres. Widow Sullivan, 4 in family, with 6 acres. The town land of Faddin. Richard Daly, 7 in family, with 7 acres. Bryan Fitzpatrick, 10 in family, with 2 acres. Tom Fitzpatrick, 6 in family, with 8 acres. Dan Fitzpatrick, 10 in family, with 2 acres. Pat Kenny, 6 in family, with 2 acres. Widow Fitzpatrick, 4 in family, with a ½ acre. James Duffy, 2 in family, 2 ½ acres. Michael Fitzpatrick, 7 in family, with 6 acres. Martin Daly, 6 in family, with 4 acres. The Sheriff and his men I Clonboniff and Clonlyon today continue the "good work". They are to evict more families, besides the above of Dernlough and Sumpleton the day after. File at: http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/offaly/newspapers/eviction6gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb