School: Collon (roll number 14579)

Location:
Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhathúna

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 232

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in the old factory where the looms were.
The hole can still be seen in a yard on Laundry Walk Collon where poteen was made.

At Mountfortesque Grangegeeth Slane, lived a man named Hallligan, who made baskets of sally rods.
A man named Mc Gennis owned a mill at Belpatrick Collon, where Meades now reside and another owned by Mc Givney Collon.
Patrick French Smarmore Ardee made dressers and gates.
A linen mill worked in the "Bleach" Collon, and in olden times the Nursey was know as the most noted nursery in the British Isles

Collector
Brigid Maguire
Gender
female
Address
Leabby Cross, Co. Louth
Language
English