School: Baurnafea, Paulstown (roll number 807)
- Location:
- Baurnafea, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sean Moffat
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 338
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- (continued from previous page)hold strongly to this. The second reason given is that the Bornafea people hearing excellent coal and colm within eight or nine miles (Castlecomer) considered it impracticable to contine working their own pits.
Durning the Cosgrave regime an effort was made to reopen the workings. A government engineer examined the pits & the district. He said that the vein of coal had a northward trend and that it was the same vein as that in Castlecomer. He was certain that if the pits were got going excellend hard coal would be dug. However about £250 would have to be produced locally before a start would be made and before and Government grant could be made. As this could not be guaranteed the idea of reopening the pits was abandoned.
- Informant
- Patrick Bridgett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballygorteen, Co. Kilkenny
