broguemaker

Updated: August 23, 2026

He, too, was on the ice on the Liffey, and the part on which he stood becoming detached was driven by the current through Ormond and Essex Bridges; he kept his position, however, on the floating ice till he was taken off in a boat. The following story is told in Pue's Occurrences, in May, 1740: A broguemaker had been committed to Dungannon jail for some offence, but managed to make his escape.

John O'Rourke - The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) : With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines