Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (2 of 2): (2nd ed.) (1888)Hurlbert, William Henry
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Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (2 of 2): (2nd ed.) (1888)
Hurlbert, William Henry
Ireland -- Description and travel; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901
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| OFFICE. | 1880. | 1887. |
+-----------------+-----------------+---------------+
| | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Bunbeg, | 1,270 6 7 | 1,206 18 2 |
| Falcarragh, | 62 15 10 | 494 10 8 |
| Gorey, | 3,690 14 4 | 5,099 5 7 |
| Inch, |[A] 8 11 0 | 209 7 5 |
| Killorglin, | 282 15 9 | 1,299 2 6 |
| Loughrea, | 5,500 19 9 | 6,311 4 11 |
| Mitchelstown, | 1,387 13 2 | 2,846 9 3 |
| Portumna, | 2,539 10 11 | 3,376 5 4 |
| Sixmilebridge, | 382 17 10 | 934 13 4 |
| Stradbally, | 1,812 14 8 | 2,178 18 2 |
| Woodford, | 259 14 6 | 1,350 17 11 |
| Youghal, | 3,031 0 7 | 7,038 7 2 |
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[A] This Office was not opened for Savings Bank
business until the year 1881, the amount shown
being balance due on the 31st December 1882.
It appears from this table that the deposits in these Savings Banks
increased in the aggregate from £20,329, 15s. 11d. in 1880 to £32,347,
9s. 7d. in 1887, or almost 60 per cent, in seven years. They fell off in
only one case, at Bunbeg, and there only to a nominal amount. At Youghal
they much more than doubled, increasing about 133 per cent. Yet in all
these places the Plan of Campaign has been invoked "because the people
were penniless and could not pay their debts!"
NOTE K.
THE COOLGREANY EVICTIONS.
(Vol. ii. p. 216.)
Captain Hamilton sends me the following graphic account of this affair
at Coolgreany:--
In the _Freeman's Journal_ of the 16th December 1886, it is reported
that a meeting of the Brooke tenantry, the Rev. P. O'Neill in the chair,
was held at Coolgreany on the Sunday previous to the 15th December 1886,
the date on which the "Plan of Campaign" was adopted on the estate, at
which it was resolved that if I refused the terms offered they would
join the "Plan."
I had no conference at Freeman's house or anywhere else at any time with
two parish priests. On the 15th December 1886, when seated in Freeman's
house waiting to receive the rents, four priests, a reporter of the
_Freeman's Journal_, some local reporters, and four of the tenants
rushed into the room; and the priests in the rudest possible manner (the
Rev. P. Farrelly, one of them, calling me "Francy Hyne's hangman," and
other terms of abuse) informed me that unless I re-instated a former
Roman Catholic tenant in a farm which he had previously held, and which
was then let to a Protestant, and gave an abatement of 30 per cent., no
rent would be paid _me_ that day. Dr. Dillon, C.C., was not present on
this occasion, or, if so, I do not remember seeing him.
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