School: Ballylusk & Glenealy
- Location:
- Ballylusk, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Bean Uí Bhroin Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)they have all died out.
Another family on this farm was that of Phelim Devlin. The house now held by Mr D. M. Doyle was occupied by a man known as "Big Paddy Devlin" he was almost a giant, it is told that he once rode a cob in a local race, he got so far before his competitors that as he got so near the winning post, he jumped down and carried his pony passed the post.
Mr Whitty succeeded him and carried on bacon curing and sending it on to Dublin. Wicklow bacon was then famous all over Ireland. This man was the last of the bacon curers.
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