Scoil: Kiltegan
- Suíomh:
- Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow
- Múinteoir: S. Foxton
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0917, Leathanach 234
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- This factory was owned by a Mr. Orr, over 100 years ago, who spent a great deal of money fitting it out as such, and also on making a canal to bring the water to the wheel. It was the best wheel in Ireland, but one, then. The factory was fitted out perfectly for the manufacture of cotton. It had about 300 windows. 200 persons were employed in it. Stratford-on-Slaney was a prosperous town then one mile long. The houses had number plates on the doors. A big market of all kinds of farm produce was held two days a week, and every day there was ready sale for farm produce.The employees had to go one road to the town and back by the other road. There is a little of the old road to be seen at the side of the graveyard wall at the Church.This factory failed because of the difficulty in making the patterns appear on the wrong side of the material. Then Mr Morley bought the whole concern and made a silk factory of it. The town and country around were in a(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
