School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)

Location:
Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Ambrose Madders
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0650, Page 182

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    boats went back laden with flour. This factory was also closed down on account of all the foreign flour landed on our shores. There were eight lime kilns at Whelan's Bridge and these supplied the parish with lime. There were great basket-makers in this parish long ago. They made the baskets from sallies and sometimes from rushes and they got these sallies and rushes on the banks of the Suir.
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  2. Long ago when meal was scarce the people used to have to grind the oats with water mills. Now there is in Blacknock the ruins of one of these old mills which is to be seen at the present day and there is to be seen also, the mill wheel. It is about one hundred years since that mill was working. When this mill was working lots of the farmers used to get jobs drawing the meal
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
      2. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Mrs O' Keeffe
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford