The Widow Sheedy of Clonclough, Killoscully
		Preface by Jenny Fawcett

In 1844 a 'Widow Sheedy' was displaced from her home at Clonclough by an agent of
her landlord (Lord Bloomfield).Mrs Sheedy had (according to the newspaper report)
'long lived' in the house there and at the time of her ejectment she had  three sons, 
a married daughter and a grandchild living with her.
She owed Bloomfield no money (according to the news reports) and had always been 
honest in her dealing with Bloomfield. 

	(I would like to thank Sheryl Zenzerovich for her kindness in supplying 
	me with the following news article)
	Nenagh Guardian. April 1st 1844. Co Tipperary Ireland.
	"	Facts for Lord Denton
	The Nenagh Vindicator, after giving vent to a little perhaps justifiable
	anger, at any doubt being suggested as to the accuracy of statements 
	affecting the conduct of landlords or their agents, by journals advocating
	Repeal or Ultra-Radical principles, proceeds to narrate "for the information
	of Lord Devon", a few particulars of recent occurrences connected with
	the land-letting system in Tipperary:-
		The work of extermination (says the Vindicator) proceeds
		with lightning swiftness on the one hand,and the retaliatory
		process is rife on the other. The last fact with which we
		have been made acquainted is one that occurred on Monday, when
		the Under-Sheriff went to the lands of Clonclough, in the 
		parish of Killoskully, the property of Lord Bloomfield; and
		ejected a poor widow of the name of Sheedy, who, with three
		sons, a married daughter and a grandchild lived in the house.
		What renders this case one of great hardship is the circumstance
		that the widow did no, we are informed, owe one farthing rent,
		and had been at all times most honest in her dealings with the
		landlord. She had been in Nenagh when the Under-Sheriff was 
		at her place: and her grief was expressed in loud wailings when
		she saw, on her return, the house in which she had long lived
		closed against her. She broke the lock, when an under-steward
		of Lord Bloomfield, to prevent the possibility of her and her
		family again living on the land, pulled down and levelled the
		house with the ground.
		A Widow Ryan, whose son is in the lunatic asylum, was also 
		ejected, but her house was spared. We are told that there are 
		two or three farms to be let at this moment on Lord Bloomfield's
		property but that no one will bid for them because the former
		tenants had been put out.

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Notes
* = sighted original record.