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Chladaigh a dhiol se le Mr. Joule i dtus na seascaidL Cheannaigh Mr. Key Eastat Chroithli 6 Mrs. Russell. Thainig Mr. Ross agus Mr. Heburn i ndiaidh . Mrs. Russell i nDun Luiche agus bhf baile fearainn amhain Muine Mh6r ag Lord Leitrim. Mar sin de, taobh amuigh de Chnoc Fola agus de thailte na nOlfartach, thainig athru iomlan beagnach ar uineireacht phar6iste Ghaoth Dobhair i lar an 19u cead. 0 thaobh na bhfigiuirf de ghlac uineiri ura seilbh ar 40,000 acra n6 tuairim is 90% de thalamh an cheantair. Beidh tionchar an athraithe seo a phle agam go hairithe ar eastat George Hill nios moille ach is fiU rud amhain a lua anseo. Ainneoin gur dhUirt Patrick Mc Kye, maistir scoile de chuid an cheantair in achaini a chur se chuig Tiarna Liefteanant na hEireann in 1837 go raibh muintir na haite: "in the most needy, hungry and naked condition of any people' 114 agus ce gur dhuirt George Hill go raibh fior-dhrochdh6igh ar na daoine nuair a thainig seisean, mar sin fein, nil aon amhras ach gur chun olcais a chuaigh saol na ndaoine faoin bhaicle ur tiarnaf talaimh seo. Deir udar amhain: "Before 1838 there were no resident landlords in Gweedore and apparently no land agents. There were a great many absentee proprietors, some of them claiming only a single town/and with a nominal rent of a few pounds". 5 Rinne Patrick Mc Kye tagairt ina achaini do "no resident gentlemen". Rinne udar eile tagairt don ghaol a bhl idir an Captaen Stewart agus a chuid tion6ntaithe: ucaptain Stewart was an indulgent andpopular owner, who hardly ever insisted on money in the way of rent-payments from his tenantry. The usual mode of payments was by assisting annually at the bringing home of his turf. The tenantry of Gweedore used to go to Hornhead with their horses and side-creels to carry home his turf for him - a distance of twenty miles from their homes. They usually remained there for a week and were liberally fed and housed - both themselves and their horses. The competition between the prowess of their horses in doing work and those of the natives of Hornhead were usually keen and was often a theme for conversation for a time after returning home. It is evident that Captain Stewart was a great favourite with his tenantry. Those tenants who had no horses or men to send to the turfgathering usually paid the landlords in so many dozen of rabbit skins, which animal was very plentiful in the district at the time''6 Tchffidh muid go dtainig athru m6r ar an ghaol sin i ndiaidh Chaptaen Stewart agus go hairithe ar thailte George Hill. LORD GEORGE HILL Ba George Hill (1801-1879) an cuigiu mac a bhf ag Dara Marquis Downshire (Co. an Duin). Ba 6 Shasana a thainig na Hills (Clann Devonshire) 6 thus ama in am na banrfona Eilise. Bhf Sir Moses Hill ina oifigeach airm ag an larla Essex in 1573. 7 Ta ainm an teaghlaigh le feiceail ' in aiteacha,cosuil le Hill Hall, Hillsborough agus Hilltown. Bhf George Hill ina mhajor san arm agus ina M.P. do Charraig Fheargusa in 1831-32. Ba 4 '