School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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- Howletts Browery in Priory Street and Marsh Lane. They made beer and minerals. There were thirty men employed there. They made it out of barley. It is closed seventy years.Long ago there was a snuff and tobacco factory in Mary St. New Ross. A man named Jeffars owned it. There were abut five hundred men working in it. At that time all the farmers used to grow tobacco, and they used to sell it, to Mr Jeffars. He used to manufacture it, into blocks of tobacco.About the year 1905 a large bacon factory in Marsh Lane was
closed. It was worked for many years before it's closing and a very big business was done. Mr. Kehoe was the owner at the time of it's closing.About fifty years ago there was a factory in Mary St, owned by a man named Jeffars. The snuff was made from tobacco leaf. The men used to grind the leaf and when it would be ground fine it would be stuff.There was a rope factory in New Ross long ago. It is called the Rope Walks at(continues on next page)
