School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kilmore
- XML Page 347
- XML “Travelling Folk”
- XML “Fire Clay Works at Lough Allen”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
Travelling Folk (continued)
“The beggars of to-day are not as are not as plentiful as they were in the days of old...”
(continued from previous page)huts, generally situated at the backs of ditches. The names of some of them were James Ward, Tom Sheridan and Braced Beesy her right name is not known but she was called Braced Beesy because her face was all pock-marked. They used to beg for meal, flour, potatoes, soda, bread, milk and sometimes eggs. They used to have little tin cans for the milk and bags for all the other things. Supplied by James Wynn, Killadiskert, 50years
Written by Tessie McLoughlin, Killadiskert.- Three miles from Kilmore, over sixty years ago bricks, chimney pipes, flower pots and all sorts of pottery were made from fire-clay at the jetty, Spencer Harbour. The people who worked it had a large shop and a public house. Boat used to come to the jetty from Dublin with porter and whiskey, and from Limerick with flour. Before this the flour was home made and the workers of the jetty were the first to bring flour to Leitrim. Those boats used to bring back the bricks in exchange for the flour and whiskey. The bricks were burned in a large round kiln. Every brick was stamped with Lough Allen.
Supplied by B McLoughlin, Killadiskert, 50years
Written by Tessie McLoughlin, Killadiskert.- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- B. Mc Loughlin
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim