THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM GALWAY. -The Sub Sheriff and police went to the townland of Winterfield on Saturday, and Castlecreevan on Monday, and evicted a large number of persons. The poor rate collector was also present, and seized their furniture for the poor rates. -Galway Mercury.
Tuam Herald, 1 June 1850.EVICTIONS.
B. Canavan, relieving officer, reported at last meeting of the board of guardians that notice had been served upon him of the eviction of two families off the townland of Beaghmore, division of Beaghmore, the property of C. St George, Esq. Also the eviction of ten families off the townlands of Thomastown and Carabeg, the property of James Clarke, Esq. C. O'Brien reported that he was noticed of eviction of one family off the property of M. J. Browne, Esq., in Annadown electoral division.
A respected correspondent from Moylough has sent us a list of evictions on the Annaghmore property in that neighbourhood. The list amounts to thirty-three families, and comprises a population of one-hundred and sixty persons. One correspondent adds that ten of the above families are getting other holdings. We refrain from comment until we are put in possession of the details of a case which, if true, would furnish a deplorable instance of the impulse given by landlords to an emigration which is already threatening to leave the country a wilderness. -Tuam Herald.
The Fermanagh Mail and Enniskillen Chronicle, 19 May 1853.GALWAY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.
The Guardians of the Galway union met on yesterday. The following gentlemen were in attendance: -John Redington, Esq., in the chair.
R. N. Somerville, Wm. Clancy, Walter Lambert, Patrick Fitzgerald, Arthur Skilling, W. P. Lambert, H. Griffin, Thomas H. Tierney, John O'Malley, Pierce Joyce, Nicholas Lynch, John Gunning, John Harrison, and John Hall, P.L.L., Esqrs. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. [...]
A letter was read from Mr. Fynn, the relieving officer, stating that a notice had been served on him that two families, containing nine persons, are to be evicted off the townland of Kennaherny [Rinnaharney], in the Annadown division, the property of Charles O'Rorke.
The Galway Vindicator and Connaught Advertiser, 24 April 1852.
EVICTIONS. - V. Browne, relieving officer, reported that he had notice served upon him of the eviction of 36 persons off the lands of Glanaveel, Cullagh South, and Lisaniska, in the Abbey-West electoral division, and the property of Messrs. Thorngate, who lately purchased those lands in the Incumbered Estates Court. C. O'Brien, relieving officer, reported that two families had been evicted by Marquis Lynch, Esq., at Glanrevagh, in the Annadown division under a barrister's decree, and that such proceeding took place without serving him as relieving officer with the required legal notice. -Tuam Herald.
The Limerick and Clare Examiner, 8 September 1852.
My 2ndGrtGrdFather, John Carr was born in 1843 in Annaghdown, Galway. In 1867 he was living in Liverpool, i guess evicted from his home during the genocidal land clearances.
ReplyDeleteThank-you for posting this public record of the land clearances that occured