School: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Flannan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 146
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- WeavingWeaving was carried on about fifty or sixty years ago in Connaught St, Birr, where McDaniel Molloy's yard now is. The weavers were a family of Vaughans. On the maternal side this family came from Ennistymon Co. Clare. They were Mac Donnells. They left Co. Clare in the days of the Famine and came to Birr. These MacDonnells had a forge in Ennistymon and here pikes were made for the men of '98.Now there is no trace whatever of the implements used in the weaving in those days.
