School: Ballymakenny, Drogheda (roll number 831)
- Location:
- Baile Mhic Éinigh, Co. Lú
- Teacher: M. Ní Chearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)ago. She had a spinning wheel and a wheel for making sacks. When she was young there were two flax-holes near her houme at Green Lake. She remembers the old mill to be working.
- This mill stands about 300 yds. south of the school on the Drogheda road. It was worked by the waters of the "Mill Stream" which rises in Tullyesker hill and flows through this district and enters the sea at Termonfeckin about 4 miles east from Ballymakenny.
There is no trace of mill wheel or machinery now. The ruins is covered with ivy and one side of it has been converted into a ball-alley in recent years.
Meal flour was milled here Mrs Doonan told us until about 50 years ago. It looks such a wreck one can hardly believe that it was working 50 years ago - Mr. Patrick Moore of Ballymakenny - whose eldest child is about twenty years of age - remembers the time when farmers made and used their own whips. They made the lash from(continues on next page)
