Bodyke Evictions Memorial

The Bodyke Evictions Memorial commemorates one of the most significant land disputes of nineteenth-century Ireland. In June 1887, Colonel John O'Callaghan-Westropp, owner of a 5,000-acre estate near Bodyke in County Clare, initiated mass evictions against tenants who could not pay their rents. Though rents had been reduced by 35 percent during the earlier Land War of the 1870s, economic hardshi...