School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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“Long ago there was a great old Factory in a place called Ballinrally.”
Long ago there was a great old Factory in a place called Ballinrally. This factory was used for making bottles. These bottles were big black thick ones.
These bottles were used for putting the beer that was made from the "Black Pinion" barley in. These bottles were called the "fir stone" bottles. The reason they were called the fir stone bottles was because they were made from some class of firs and black stones.
This Factory was owned by a man named Kirwan. This man made a(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Matthew Collier
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Laois