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By early 1856, the Mollies’ target, James Gallagher, held land accounting for over 41 per cent of the acreage in Beagh and 31 per cent of its rental; seven tenancies accounted for the rest, with three of them joint-tenancies involving two to three households. Gallagher had acquired land cheaply during the Famine, by purchasing the ‘good will’ to a holding, that is, the customary right to rent it, from a tenant who emigrated to America. And in 1855 he acquired substantial sections of land held by Pat Kennedy and Widow Nancy Sweeney. The Mollies’ animosity to Gallagher in spring 1856 stemmed less from those transactions than from his determination to evict three families with houses on the land acquired from Sweeney and also a cottier family who had been paying him ‘black rent’ (labour) for a potato patch and a mud cabin.
Title: James Gallagher
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By early 1856, the Mollies’ target, James Gallagher, held land accounting for over 41 per cent of the acreage in Beagh and 31 per cent of its rental; seven tenancies accounted for the rest, with three of them joint-tenancies involving two to three households.
Gallagher had acquired land cheaply during the Famine, by purchasing the ‘good will’ to a holding, that is, the customary right to rent it, from a tenant who emigrated to America.
And in 1855 he acquired substantial sections of land held by Pat Kennedy and Widow Nancy Sweeney.
The Mollies’ animosity to Gallagher in spring 1856 stemmed less from those transactions than from his determination to evict three families with houses on the land acquired from Sweeney and also a cottier family who had been paying him ‘black rent’ (labour) for a potato patch and a mud cabin.
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