On this day St.Stephens Day in 1887 the workmen of Feehans Brewery and their dependants went in procession to Feehans house to expresss their gratitude to him for setting up a committee to collect £60 to provide work for thirty men before Christmas at 6 shillings a week wages .Brewery Lane is so called because that was where the brewery was in the 1800s There is a very old established brewery in Carrick-on-Suir, of which Messrs. Richard Feehan and Sons are the proprietors . They brewed ales, porter, and stout, and do a considerable trade in ales. Nothing but malt and hops are used, and the firm make all their own malt, and purchase all their barley locally, principally from the farmers upon the County Kilkenny side, except a little foreign barley which they mix with the home barley for the production of their light ales. They have a wholesale whiskey business in connection with the brewery. Their business is personally superintended by Mr. R. B. Feehan, a thoroughly practical brewer who obtained his experience in England. A local balled maker composed a ballad that went. Guinness stout is good no doubt. In barrel or in bottle But it cannot compare with Feehans beer To cool a thirsty throttle .
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