School: Cill t-Síothláin, Cluain Meala (roll number 7607)
- Location:
- Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Aragáin
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- XML “Local Industries - Salmon Fishing in the Suir at Kilsheelan”
- XML “Local Industries - The Slate Quarries”
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- (continued from previous page)know when and where to expect the salmon. Much rod fishing is carried on but only for pleasure.My father spent some years at the salmon fishing and he says it is an old industry in the locality.
- The Slate quarries is the name of a place a few miles from Kilsheelan. The road leading to the place is beautifully wooded. It is easy to understand how the place got its name. There are huge mounds of roken slates to be seen yet. There is no doubt that large quantities of slates must have been dug out of the quarries. These quarries were closed about thirty years ago. The place was examined by Experts and it was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christopher Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gurteen Lower, Co. Waterford