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GATHERING PLACES 6

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Summary: Tullig Village

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This striking Illustrated London News sketch of Tullig village in the Kilrush district of Clare shows how landlords and their agents ordered the demolition of houses left by evicted tenants. This prevented the tenants from returning. One land agent, Marcus Keane, is reputed to have destroyed 500 houses in this way.

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This is a landscape scene of the deserted village of Tullig in Ireland. It has a quiet and desperate air about it. A lone figure in tattered clothes holds a stick as he walks by the disused dwellings. The roofs are in a state of disrepair and render the cottages uninhabitable to all but the most destitute and dispossessed inhabitants. This was common during the potato famine and evictions in the middle of the 19th century.

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