School: Ballylusk & Glenealy
- Location:
- Ballylusk, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Bean Uí Bhroin Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)St Patrick converted the people of Ireland to the faith. The flint axe was one of those implements in use before the people discovered how to make bronze; the one found at Ballymacsimon probably be-longed to a period about 5,000 years before Christ. The farm on which Laurence Byrne now resides formerly was made up of several small holdings. In "black" 47 when famine swept the country, the people either died or fled to America, leaving practically all Ballymacsimon and the surrounding country unoccupied. About two families out of seven on this farm remained.
One was a family named Fitzpatrick they resided where there is now a large yew tree at head of the farm, they lived by cutting faggots from the tree for a bakery in Glenealy, there were two bakeries in Glenealy, one where Mr Galvin has his place, the ruins of the other (Mac Mullen's) can be seen at the rere of Miss Hogan's garden. Faggots were bundles of green furze they were used to heat the oven's then in use.
Fitzpatricks later on kept a laundry(continues on next page)
