School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 296
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- Bricks were once made at a place at the back of Killaghy Castle which is still known as the "Brick Field". The bricks were made of yellow clay and baked in the sun. They must have been of inferior quality as the buildings in which they were used soon fell away. The oldest inhabitant of Mullinahone cannot remember the making of the bricks.
- Collector
- Patricia Ahearne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- John Norton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Culm balls for fuel are made extensively here. The fire slack of the coal is carted from the Colleries of Slievardagh and in late years from Castlecomer by motor lorries. The coal or slack is ground into a fine slate by pounding it with a pounder until all lumps are made very fine.(continues on next page)
