School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)the tobacco barns and dried at large fires of coke. When it was perfectly dry and a nice brown colour the leaves were plucked off the stems, packed in bales and sent to Randlestown for curing. The stalk had to be burned in the presence of an Excise man.
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- Collector
- Paul Reid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knock, Co. Meath
- Once upon a time there was a brickyard in Knock. The clay was got in Hughes' field. This field was afterwards called the brick field. When the clay was brought to the mill it was mixed with cement and burned with coke and colunm. It was then left in heaps to cool. When it was cool the bricks were made and left in stacks to be sold. They were sold for three shillings per hundred.(continues on next page)
- About a hundred years ago there was a pottery