Absentee English landlord seeks to evict young Kilkenny family
A YOUNG family, including a granny suffering from dementia, are to be evicted from their Kilkenny home by an absentee English landlord.
Terrified Clare McDonough, her husband George Kilgour, their two young daughters aged five years and three months, Clare's mother Camilla (70), and aunt Rita (74), have only weeks to vacate their dilapidated yet charming family home in the middle of Gowran village.
They are the innocent victims of a legal tangle - the remnants of the English legal system that covered Ireland for centuries from the time of the Penal Laws. Solicitors acting for the former estate of the vast Lord Annaly estate want to put them on to the street because their lease, dating from 1912, ran out in 1999.
See this week's Kilkenny People for full report and background.
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