Linen Merchants Attending the Omagh, Drumragh 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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OMAGH
1. This is a WEEKLY MARKET. It is held every SATURDAY.
2. The Market for Coarse Cloth, called Wrappers, commences at half past nine o’clock, from the 25th of March to the 25th of September and at half past ten o’clock from the 25th September to the 25th of March. That for fine Cloth called seven eighths wide at ten o’clock from the 25th September to the 25th March. All conclude at four o’clock in the afternoon, but the sale is over in half an hour to an hour.
3. The Market is held in the open Street.
4. The coarse Cloth which is brought to this Market is called Wrappers, and the Webs fifty, seventy and eighty yards long, and twenty-eight inches broad, made from Tow-Yarn about the set of six-hundred.
The fine Cloth called seven-eighth wide Linen, is forty-eight to fifty-two yards broad, from the sets of nine to eleven hundreds.
5. The following are the average prices of the Linen brought to this Market.
The coarse Linens called Wrappers, 5½d. per yard.
The fine Linens called seven-eighth wide, about 12½d. per yard.
6. All Linens come to this Market in a Brown state. The Yarn gets only one operation in Bleaching. None come in a state of half-bleach.
7. All the coarse Cloth called Wrappers is exported to England in a brown state.
The fine Cloth, called seven-eight wide is, for the most part, bleached in the country, and exported in that state to England and Scotland, and a good part sent to the Linen all, Dublin.
8. See the Answer, No. 2.
9. The average number of Webs brought to this Market may said to be thus: About one hundred and fifty coarse Webs called Wrappers, value £22, about three fine hundred Webs called seven-eight wide, value £700. The value of both about £920.
10. The Weavers who attend this Market for the most part live in this County, a few come from the North part of the county Fermanagh
11. About five hundred Weavers upon an average attend this Market weekly
12. About sixty Buyers upon an average attend this Market weekly
13. Of the sixty Buyers who attend this Market, twenty are principals and forty 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 James GREER Omagh Robert HAMILTON Omagh Owen DONNELLY Omagh John CHAMBERS Mulaghmore, Omagh GERRARD & ECCLES Common, Omagh Francis MEAGHAN Omagh Edward MOSS Omagh John & James QUIN Douglasbridge, Newtownstewart Robert COCHRAN Strabane Hugh OVENS Strabane Thomas COOK Lisdrum [Lisdivin], Strabane Robert McCREA Leck Robert McCREA Glenrush [Glencush] Edward SPROUL Spamount, Strabane James SPROUL Spamount, Strabane Frederick McCormick B. Dennett [Burndennett], Strabane John WILSON Shannee [Sionee?], Fintona William KING Fintona Francis LITTLE Omagh
15. The following are the names and residences of the principal Buyers from other Counties who attend this Market themselves, or send their Commissioners to purchase for them:
Name Residence James JOHNSTON Stranorlar William CHAMBERS Lifford John WILSON Letterkenny John Acheson SMITH and Co. Londonderry Robert STEVENSON Derry Michael KING Derry William RAMSAY Derry John and William DYSART Derry John and William CAMPBELL Derry Adam SCHOALES Derry William McCLINTOCK Derry Cary McCLELLAND and Co Derry William MACKY Derry Monk EAGLESON Derry John McCLEERY Derry Francis BENNETT & Co. Coleraine, Derry Thomas BENNETT Derry Robert CONN Derry John KNOX Coleraine, Derry William HART Coleraine, Derry James GILMAN Coleraine, Derry John WILSON Coleraine, Derry Samuel WILSON Coleraine, Derry Henry ORR Coleraine, Derry Wm. MOODY Duniven
Further records for, DRUMRAGH PARISH, COUNTY TYRONE & FLAXGROWERS and the LINEN INDUSTRY can be found at:
Drumragh Parish Records, County Tyrone
Spinning Wheel Bounty List (Flax Seed Premiums) for County Tyrone
Records of the Linen Industry and Linen Merchants:
Occupation Records, County Tyrone
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