overholding

Updated: June 4, 2025

At the Ballycastle petty sessions a woman summoned by this lady for overholding, as they call it, appeared by her son and pleaded that she had been illegally evicted. Miss Gardiner told them they might do what they liked, but she must get her house.

Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall - The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland