School: Béal an Átha Móir (C.) (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 003
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- Early in the 19th century when industrialism was at its height in these islands, a man named Norris obtained possession of the lands lately held by Lean O'Rourke of Lereevy: i.e. Lereevy, Tully-oscar and part of Ardrum.
Norris was from Down or Armagh. His faith was in flax and his hope in linen. He built a flax mill, hewed a mill race race through 30 feet of solid rock, sloughed with bullock teams the Lereevy Hills and sowed it all with flax and more flax.
For a while he prospered. His huge mansion, stores and spinning mills were a wonder in the county. An auxiliary scutch mill was built at Pollonass and a colony of weaver established at Tully on the old road to Fenagh, but, bad crops, bad prices, competition or lack of transport brought(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Derrinkeher (Mc Donnell), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Geoghegan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Leitrim
