School: Baile Nua Uachtarach, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 9967)
- Location:
- Newtown Upper, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Brian Mac Tomáis
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- (continued from previous page)are of free-stone and there are no free-stone quarries nearer than Ballinacroney about two awkward miles away. I use the word awkward as the Lingaun River intervenes and there were no motorlorries in those days to transport the huge blocks of stone. It may also be that wheels of carts were not in use, as up to seventy or eighty years ago block-wheels were in use on the farms here”
