School: Stillorgan (roll number 2472)

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1. The Brewery, Stillorgan Co. Dublin

   

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   The brewery is a very old building now in ruins in the vicinity of Stillorgan. It is conveniently connected with Dublin by bus and rail. About a quarter of a mile from Stillorgan village on the first turn is this historic building. It was about one hundred and fifty years ago, a brewery and malt was made there, hence it got the name "the brewery". It was working before the Stillorgan reservoir was completed.

   It was originally owned by Guinness and Co. Afterwards a certain Mr Darley, who lived in the Grange, which at that time included the place on which the brewery was erected and also the space occupied by the Brewery Cottages, became caretaker. Since then it was owned by the Goodfellows.

   Alongside our garden there is a well which was quarried to a depth of eighty feet in solid rock. It is about twenty two feet square, and is fed by a spring. The well was covered with pitch pine beams called joists, which were boarded over to prevent

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Licken

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Stillorgan, Co. Dublin

   Informant

   Mrs O' Riordan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Gethings

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male