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Updated: May 24, 2025

In 1845, two years before the great famine, the rental was £2142. This rental was paid throughout the famine years without difficulty; and in 1881 the rental stood at £2108. There has never been an eviction on the estate until last year, when six tenants were evicted. All of these lived in good comfortable houses, and were prosperous dairy-farmers. Why were they evicted?

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)