Who was Bridget O’Donnel? AKA The Most Famous Irish Woman in History
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Bridget O'Donnell
According to this record she was married to a man called Simon O'Donnell. The acreage is slightly different, Bridget claimed that her farm was 7 and a half acres whereas this record said it was 6 but I don't think that's a major discrepancy. More importantly the record states that the eviction was carried out by the same Dan Sheedy. Two dead, house levelled, his corn was sold for her ears before ejectment, now in the poorhouse. For me this is as convincing evidence as we could hope to find that Bridget was a very real person. Next week I'll be back with the first episode of my new series Ireland Last Aristocrat. That's not
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