IRISH EVICTIONS.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 225, 16 December 1859, Page 3

IRISH EVICTIONS.

The following letter, has been published by the Rev. P. Malone, Roman catholic priest at Belmulletj county of Mayo.

" On the 12th inst. the sub-sheriff of the county, with a large escort of police, proceeded to the townlands of Fallmore and Blacksod, the property of the Rev. W. Palmer (distant about 15 miles from this town), and commenced to evict under a writ for non«title. The work pf demolition continued until 48 families had been left houseless and homeless, the bare walls only of their little houses being left to stand. It is impossible to describe the whole scene as it occurred. When the several little articles of furniture were flung out upon the streets, and the roofs came tumbling to the ground, the cries and the screams and the frenzied exclamations that rent the air are more easily imagined than described. The poor people had to take shelter in ditches, and in the old ruins of a neighboring churchyard. Their condition up to this moment is rao&t deplorable. One poor woman, theVife of Denis Murpby, under the exposure of the night, was seized with the pangs of travail, arid was compelled to seek admittance to a cabin where 18 others had taken shelter also. These unfortunate creatures are now constructing huts for themselves on the most novel sites and plans that intellectual beings could ever think of. Through the kindness of a neighboring tenant they are permitted to use the wild rocky shore of the Atlantic for that purpose. There a line of' shanties' has been erected, and I am thoroughly convinced that the next equinoctial gales, should they come from the southwest, will cause them to be washed away by the angry breakers, which are wont to roll in upon that shore at all times. The following will give you an idea of, these curious dwellings : I visited the place on the 22nd instant, in company with a gentleman from London, and what I state is the result of accurate observation made on that occasion. Pat Gaughan with five in family; Mary Gaughan, with five in family; and Ann Gaughan, with three in family; making in all 13; all live in one cabin, the dimensions of which are 17 feet long, 7 feet broad, and 5 feet high (to the top of the roof), Samuel Walker, seven in family; house J3, feet long, 7 feet wide, 5 feet high; height of door, 3 feet. John Curduff, tve, in family; James Walker, six iii &mily ; both live in the same cabin of/], 5 feet long, 7 feet broad and 5 feet | high; door 3 feet high. Owen Lavelle, four in family ; house 9 feet by 9 leet, and sfeeVh^gh } door, 3 feet high. Such is the chancier of the dwellings these pooif c^ea^ur^s intend to. use during the winter. They are, moreover, made without mortar, and none of them have a door. : You may judge how I and my friend had to ob* serve a sitting posture while under the yoof of each of them. They ajl seem, totally destitute of comfort, UQt having even the appearance of a bed or bedding. The letter gives the names of those, with their families, evicted on the townland of Fallraore on that occasion: