]60 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 



LONGFORD. 



Potter's Clay in abundance at Ballinamuck, eastward of Long- 

 ford town. 



Brick-clay. — Near Grranard, a bad red brick, 20s. to 25s. ; 

 9 x 4 x 2f ; weight, 7 lbs. Near Longford, 30s. to 32s. ; 8£ x 4 

 x 2f ; weight, 41 lbs. Some few years ago a large trade in bricks 

 and tiles was started in Longford, the bricks being sent by canal 

 and rail to Dublin and elsewhere. This industry, however, had to 

 be discontinued, on account of the prohibitory railway rates and 

 the unnavigable state into which the Royal Canal was allowed to 

 fall. — {Pari. Comm. Irish Industries, 1885, p. 578). 



LOUTH. 



Bricks of red colour are made in many places, from one to 

 four miles from Ardee; 24s. to 32s. ; 9 x 4 x 3 ; weight, 7^- lbs. ; 

 and 8f x 3|- x 2|- ; weight, 6f lbs. In various places in the vicinity 

 of Drogheda bricks are made ; they are from inferior to good in 

 quality ; 26s. to 33s. ;9x4|x3; weight, from 6 to 6^- lbs. Grood 

 red bricks near Dundalk ; 30s ; 9 x4}x 3 ; weight, 6|- to 7 lbs. 

 Dundalk bricks have been largely used in Belfast and in other 

 towns. 



MAYO. 



" Clay fit for porcelain and every other description of earthen- 

 ware is found in inexhaustible beds, and cargoes of the finer sorts 

 are shipped for England. Fuller's earth and pipe-clay are also 

 abundant, and very good clays for bricks abound in every barony." 

 [Lewis, 1837, vol. ii., p. 356.) At the present time it is hard to 

 verify the localities above referred to; but probably they may 

 have been situated in Erris, as there is a tradition that clays were 

 formerly shipped from Killala and Ballina. 



Bricks and Tiles of a grey colour are made in several places in 

 the vicinity of Ballina ; bricks, 20s. to 30s. ; 8f- x 4^ x 3 ; weight, 



