School: St Peter's, Phibsboro
- Location:
- Phibsborough, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Ss. Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 201
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- Some forty or fifty years many farmers in the South Monaghan District made their own bricks. In the parish of Tyholland, North Monaghan bricks were made almost on every farm down to the close of the 19th century. The industry has long since disappeared in South Monaghan but whether some traces of it still linger on in Tyholland Parish I am unable to say.The method of burning adopted was as follows.The brick clay was dug up and after the soil and stones were removed it was watered and well mixed. The mixture was poured into wooden moulds and left to dry and harden. The hardened bricks were then subjected to the process of burning. They were aranged in a solid square about 6 by 6 by 6, and between each layer of bricks was a layer of "colum". Five or six open flues were left in the solid mass to allow the smoke to get out and to create the necessessary draught. The fire was lighted and the bricks were allowed to burn for six or seven weeks.In the townland of Tome, Broomfield, there were several brick kilns some fifty years ago.
- Collector
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
