School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 056
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- In Bellair, there lived a man named Martin Feehan who was a baker by trade. He made loaves for four days of the week and spent the remainder selling them. At that time a two lb loaf could be bought for a penny.About fifty years ago there was a mill in Grogan where flour and meal were made. It was owned by a man named Broader. The ruins of the mill and the mill race can still be seen.There was a man called Christy Digan was well known as a poteen maker. The field where the apparatus was situated is still known as the poteen house field.In Bellair there lived a man named Martin Reddican who was a blacksmith and whose fuel consisted of smalls balls of turf dried with a fire. His chief work was horse shoeing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Concannon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr T. Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Bellair or Ballyard, Co. Offaly
