AN IRISH EVICTION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 12

AN IRISH EVICTION

ALLEGED ORDER TO SET FIRE TO A COTTAGE: An extraordinary scene, which is alleged to have been -witnessed during an eviction in County Kerry, waa described at the Traleo Session by Mr. Thomas O'Donnell, >J.P., who asked that an enquiry should be held under the circumstances. The scene of the eviction, Mr. O'Don* noil said, was a littlo pottage almost on the top of the mountain at a place called Glounseehun. Among the occupants of tho cottngo was an old Woman of 81, who was weak hr bed, and when the sheriff arrived to carry out tlie eviction, he refused to take tho responsibility of moving the old woman. Later iti (ha day. Mr. O'Donnoll added, the sheriff returned with tho landlord, who insisted that tho woman should be removed. She was accordingly dressed by her grandchildren, as she was unable to dress herself, and removed in a car, to which she had to bo tied with a rope to her daughter's hoiiße, where she died eight days later. Mr. O'Donnell nlso stated that an order was given that oil ehould bo poured oh the roof of the cottage and that it should be set on fire. By all means let tho landlord recover possession of- his land by legal means, ( said Mr. O'Donnell, but to recover it under conditions so revolting, assuming the charges were true, was to try the patience of any people more than it should "bo tried. Evidenco having been given by Mary Hanifin, the daughter of tho old Woman, tho magistrates ordered an enquiry into the matter to bo held.