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1. New Ross, Co. Wexford - Sites of Old Tanneries

   

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   New Ross Co.Wexford
   Sites of old Tanneries}

   1. Where the terrace of houses starting from Haughton Place to Fair Gate stands, was once a tannery.

   2. Where O'Farrell's 'Big House' is in Bewley St (which was formerly called Brogue Lane*) there was another tannery. The pits were there up to comparatively recently. The premises were afterward utilised as a town dairy by O'Farrell's and the cows housed in the sheds.
   *on account of the number of brogue makers who lived in it. Brogues were a very heavy half boot affair and made up very roughly for rough farm work. They were not in the same category as boots and shoes -nore did the bookmakers recognise the brogue makers as tradesmen at all, they were ostracised so to speak.

   3. Reillys' tannery on the Bullawn. At the back of the three houses occupied by Furlong's Fardy's Flanagan's on the Bullawn - right opposite the Ex. Service Mens' houses' stood Reilly's tannery. Reilly's were noted tanners not only for 'owning' but 'doing' the work.
   Reilly's garden noted for luxurious flowers and vegetables stood exactly where the Ex Sevice Mens' houses & gardens are.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary B. Dunphy

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Teacher