Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. An Ancient Pottery

   

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   I never remembering hearing anything about the Slaney Jug but I used to hear the old people talking about an ancient Pottery at Killiane near Wexford Harbour whether the Slaney Jug had anything to do with it I don't know. This pottery was started by a settler that came over from England a couple of hundred years ago. He had a big estate at Great Killiane and Ballykelly. He was a Quaker and he married a young woman who also had received possessions in Glynn. He started the pottery and at first he produced a kind of very coarse ware and we are told that it met with great demand. Soon he began to import material from England and he built new houses and stores. on one of the walls of a store house was written in big letters made of white earthenware the name "Jonnthan [Chamberleyne ?] 1719". This is said to be the name of the settler, but the store house and wall have long since perished. Tradition tells us that he did

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   History Edit

   Date

   31 July 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Collector

   • Domhnall de Buitléir

   Informant

   • Tomás Ó Ciaráin