School: Willistown, Dunleer (roll number 7597)
- Location:
- Willistown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ó Liatháin
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- Information supplied by John Callaghan, blacksmith, Mount Doyle, Parish of Togher, Co. Louth who was born in 1852.Industries: Linen weaving & spinning carried on by several families in the district when he was young. Lynch's in Adamstown, McGeoughs Dillonstown, Harmons in Martinstown & MacEvoys in Salterstown.Silver mining was carried on in Salterstown in early part of nineteenth century: shafts were sunk near the sea shore. One of the miners - Jonathan Judd - is buried in the churchyard adjacent.
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- John Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Smith
- Address
- Mountdoyle, Co. Louth