School: Lios an Chairn (roll number 10390)
- Location:
- Lissacarn, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Fuaráin
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- (continued from previous page)A stream running across Leganamer and Drumaringna is called "Jones' Folly,' because long ago it turned a Linen Mill for a man named Jones.In olden times it was called the "Wall of Ulster" It was then ninteen feet wide and had a ditch along it seventeen feet wide. On top of this ditch there were three rows of poisoned sticks to keep out men who would attack Ulster.The Mill was established more than 100 years ago. The water used for bleaching the linen came from Doon bog in the parish of Upper Drumreilly. Jones put leather troughs from hill to hill and got the water into this dyke. People thought it was a very foolish action and called it a folly and that is why the dyke is now called Jones Folly. The man who got the mill after Jones was a man called Garret.
- Informant
- F. Kelly
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Drumarigna, Co. Leitrim
