School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)
- Location:
- Ráth Domhnaigh, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: P. Ó Héigceartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0828, Page 044
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- About 100 years ago there was no brewery in Rathdowney. There was a flour mill where it now situated. Flour was sold around the country. The mill was owned by a man named Mr. White and there was a rive beside it to turn the machinery.
After a while an English man by the name of Perry bought the mill and seeing it was a suitable spot because of the river turned it into a brewery and ever afterwards beer is made there. A good many of men are employed for making the beer.
The brewery helped to start this town because houses had to be built for the men employed in it.
- Collector
- Eamonn O Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Domhnaigh, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- Mr Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Ráth Domhnaigh, Co. Laoise
