School: Tobar (C.)

Location:
Tober, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Bean Uí Thóirdhealbhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 125

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    large Oatmills one in Horseleap owned by Mr J. Hackett one in Siona owned by Mr P Walsh. One in Kilfoylan owned by Mr Tom McGuinnes.
    Joe Larkin has one in Bryanna and Mr Allen one in Creggan. All of these can make wholemeal but not white flour. There are some other old mills about of which I know very little but the water is still flowing on to them. One Mrs Egans place the water flows in and out through a window. It was a woleen mill worked up to seventy years ago.
    The other place the water would have been working a wheel In later years it was used as a sawmill owned by Mr Andy Kinahan
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary A. Galvin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Eileen Galvin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    41
    Address
    Faheeran, Co. Offaly