Zone d'identification
Cote
IE OCL P6/5
Titre
Letter from Mary Perkinson to John Monaghan
Date(s)
- 6 December 1862 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4pp
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1800-1876)
Notice biographique
Born c.1800 in Croghan, County Tipperary, and near to the town of Birr, County Offaly, Mary Monaghan married William Perkinson in or around 1825.
Histoire archivistique
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Photocopy of letter from Mary Perkinson to John Monaghan, informing him of the family's impending eviction from their holding and pleading for assistance to emigrate to America. Describes Croghan and the impact of famine and emigration on the area: 'Most of your old neighbours are either dead or emigrated, most of the land was to growing grass, and strange to say the people are flying away in thousands yet. Nothing will keep them at home. Love of country or of kindred will not prevent them. Off they go and when will it end God only knows. Bad landlords is the cause.'