School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Duibhgeannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0709, Page 154
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- 25th May 1938
In the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a tannery in Robertstown owned by a man named Charles O Reilly, an ancestor of the present Charles O Reilly, Kilbeg. He was known locally as "Charles na muc" because he used to feed many pigs. He bought cattle and all sorts of horses, ones that were sick and dying, and good healthy ones. He tanned the hides into leather and fed them on the carcasses. He had mock bottoms in the tannery pits made of oak planks. By this means he succeeded in deceiving the gaugers. When they measured the length of the pits(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Jim Madden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
