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Irish News:  New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 44, 21 February 1890, Page 21

Click on image to enlarge.  Refers to Quinn, Trimble, O'Hare, McMullan and Griffin.
The Quinn family are on the 1901 census for Attical and there is a branch of the O'Hare family listed on the 1901 census for Tullyframe.  Poor Sarah Griffin is unlikely to have survived until the time of the 1901 census but there is a Griffin family in Tullybrannigan, Kilcoo.


The Dowdall Evictions (Kilkeel)

Evictions of peasantry in Ireland
http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/ILN/Evictions/Evictions.html

Land-holding in Ireland 1760-1880
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/ireland/ire-land.htm

"These helpless creatures are not only unhoused, but often driven off the land, no one remaining on the lands being allowed to lodge or harbor them. Or they, perhaps, linger about the spot, and frame some temporary shelter out of materials of their old homes against a broken wall, or behind a ditch or fence, or in a bog-hole, places unfit for human habitations .... disease, together with the privations of other kinds which they endure, before long carry them off.

As soon as one horde of houseless and all but naked paupers are dead, or provided for in the workhouse, another wholesale eviction doubles the number, who in their turn pass through the same ordeal of wandering from house to house, or burrowing in bogs or behind ditches, till broken down by privation and exposure to the elements, they seek the workhouse, or die by the roadside."
Litton, Helen, The Irish Famine; An Illustrated History Wolfhound Press Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, 1994. p.98