Linen Merchants Attending the Ballygawley, Errigal Keerogue Parish, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Market 1816
Extracted from the Minutes of the Trustees of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland, 1816
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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BALLYGAWLEY
1. This Market is held on every second FRIDAY
2. The Market commences at ten o’clock, from March the 25th to September the 25th; and at eleven o’clock from September the 25th to March the 25th. All is sold in from half an hour to an hour after the Market commences.
3. The Market is held in the open street, in the centre of the town.
4. The Linens brought to the market are seven-eighth wide, from nine hundred to eleven hundred, and from forty-eight to fifty-two yards long, and thirty-two inches broad.
5. The average price of the Linen brought to this Market is from 10d. to 14d. per yard.
6. The Yarn goes through a process of bleaching before it is made into Linen. No half-bleached Linen is sold in this Market.
7. The Linen sold in this Market is principally bleached in this County: some of it is consumed here, and the remainder exported white.
8. All Linens brought to this Market is exposed to sale at the same hour of the day.
9. The average number of Webs sold in this Market may said to be two hundred and sixty double pieces. Value about £650.
10. All the Weavers who come to this Market, reside in this County.
11. About two hundred Weavers, on an average, attend this Market.
12. From fifteen to twenty-five Buyers, upon an average, attend this Market.
13. Of the numbers of Buyers who attend this Market, ten are principals and fifteen are Commissioners.
14. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers of this County, who attend this Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
NAME RESIDENCE Peter QUIN Omagh Owen DONLEY Omagh Robert HAMILTON Omagh G. CATHERS Omagh Edward SHAW Castle Caulfield Thomas GREER Dungannon Joseph ORR Dungannon Edward MOSS Omagh John BEGGS Aughnacloy James SHAW Dungannon
15. The following are the names of residences of the principal Buyers, from other Counties, who attend this Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
NAME RESIDENCE Robert CONN Coleraine, Derry CURTIS, HEMPHILL, HUNTER & Co. Coleraine, Derry James ALEXANDER Newtown Limavady, Derry Thomas BENNETT Coleraine, Derry Joseph JOHNSON Stranorlar, Donegal ACHESON, SMYTH & Co. Derry John DICKEY Ballimenagh, Derry John BOYLE Dungiven, Derry
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Errigal Keerogue Parish Records, County Tyrone
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