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Re: Skibbereen - Famine Survivors, How?
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 02 May 15 21:13 BST (UK) »
Tithes were due on tillage land. So the tenant farmer may have grown a plot of potatoes.
Tithes were not due on pastureland.
It was a very unfair form of taxation.No wonder there was a Tithe War
Shopkeepers and publicans did not have to pay tithes

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