School: Cluain na Cille (roll number 9216)
- Location:
- Cloonakille, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eithne , Bean Uí Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)by a man named Burns from whom the mill got its name and who was the landlord of the adjoining townland of Cartron.
This mill was, later, used as a thickening mill for woollens and gave much employment to the local people. There was also a mill for Thickening woollens in the parish of Coroboy, about two miles away, the ruins of which still are to be seen.
- There was formerly a tannery near the village of Brideswell about three miles from this place. In proof of this ,there is a village still called Poll a Leathair which was the centre of the industry. The pits or holes where the hides were steeped can still be seen
