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School: An Druipseach

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Dripsey, Co. Cork
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Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0348, Page 232

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    The Dripsey Woollen Mills were there always. They were there anyway since eighteen hundhert. Fielding, they said started them. He was up there from Donoughmore. A little rat of a fellow named Beamish from Carrigrohane (Carrigrawn) down there had them for a while, but he didn't pay the men a bit, and they all turned against him. He started a band but he wouldn't leave anyone except a mill worker in it.
    The mill was mostly for tucking but they were making cloth there too.
    Dan Lynch Macroom had it when I was a young fellow. They were more joined with him, but I don't know who they were. I was working there when I was young after leaving school, helping Patsy Murphy at the tucking.
    Every Saturday a man with a horse used to go to Macroom poorhouse for a load of barrels of urine for the tucking. This used be boiled in a boiler.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Jack Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    71
    Occupation
    Carpenter
    Address
    Faha, Co. Cork