There had been no "evictions." When the tenants first went to Mr.Olphert they asked a reduction of 4s.

in the pound on the non-judicial rents, and this Mr.Olphert at once agreed to give them.
The tenants had regularly paid their rents for ten years before.

That they are not going down in the world would appear from the fact that the P.O.Savings Banks' deposits at Falcarragh, which stood at L62, 15s.
10d.

in 1880, rose in 1887 to L494, 10s.8d.A small number of them had gone into Court and had judicial rents fixed; and it was on the contention promoted by the two priests, through these judicial tenants, he said, that all the difficulty hinged.

Father M'Fadden of Glena, who thought the quarrel unjustifiable and silly, had an interview with Mr.
Blane, M.P., and with Father Stephens, and tried to arrange it all.