School: Newbliss (roll number 8328)
- Location:
- Newbliss, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Margaret E. Doogan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)Thatching is carried out yet, but not as much as long ago.There was a man named Tom Brown who lived in Newbliss who used to make nails out of nail rod. He had a hammer for the purpose to put the heads on them.About forty hears ago the people used to burn their own bricks in kilns. There were two burned one in a farm in Drumlaney, and the other in Tullyard.The way they made the bricks was first, they raised the clay, and turned it over and picked every stone out of it, and then they put them in moulds and left them out to dry. When they were dry, they put them into the kiln and burned them and then they built houses with them.There were bricks made for a house of Mr John Herbert about ten years ago in Drumlaney. Mr David Lyons and Mr John Herbert made them. They burned a kiln just that same as before.
- Informant
- Mr J. Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumlina, Co. Monaghan
