News: Ejectments - Gurthnacola, May 15, 1848

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EJECTMENTS - GURTHNACOLA, MAY 15, 1848
    Tipperary Vindicator.
  
Cappawhite, May 6th.

  On Thursday last the sheriff appeared by proxy on the town
land of Gurthnacola, the property of Vincent Scully, Esq, of
Kilfeacle House, furnished with all the legal authority for
ejectment, and all the armed rightfulness usual on such
occasions. At once the officer of the law set about the work
of his mission, and in a very short time executed it. Down
came the houses of;--

  Andy Ryan, with his family of 11 persons left without a
home, he held 16 acres.

  James Dwyer, 6 persons, 13 acres.

  Andy Ryan, 2 persons, 6.5 acres.

  Thomas Kelly, 7 persons, 9 acres.

  Widow Breen, 7 persons, 1 acre.

  Patrick Carroll, 4 persons, 4.5 acres.

  Andy Ryan, 6 persons, 6.5 acres.

  These expelled tenants held their farms under a middle man
up to Sept. last, paid their rents punctually, I understand,
were most industrious, paid high rents---£2 and £2.6 per
acre, were willing to submit to the same rents, offered
securities for the fulfilment of these engagements--one, I
am assured, offered two years rent in advance as a security.
Their farms were well tilled, yet they had to quit; they did
not happen to hold a measure of land sufficient to
constitute them respectable tenants, they had not leases,
and a landlord "can do what he likes with his own".