School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. O' Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 188
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- There used to be a factory down at the Vale School. It is gone into ruins now. A man mamed Simpson owned it. It was a woollen factory. He had a lot of girls working in it.
They spun tweed and other cloths in it. He paid the girls to the amount of work they did.
They did a great trade until Simpson died. Then it was taken over by a Company. Other mills sprung up at Navan and at other places and they took a good deal of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Anne Farrelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Nolagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nolagh, Co. Cavan
