Editing Carrickmacross (section)

===Lacemaking===
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The town is known for the lace bearing its name. [[Carrickmacross lace]] is worked in an individual style, devised by Mrs Grey Porter, wife of the rector of Donaghmoyne, who introduced it in 1820. When she left the district the teaching of Carrickmacross lacemaking was continued by Miss Reid of Rahans, but it was only after the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] in 1846, when a lace school was set up by the managers of the Bath and Shirley estates at Carrickmacross as a means of helping their starving tenants, that the lace became known and found sales.

Subsequently, the lacemaking declined, but in the last decade of the 19th century the Sisters of St Louis founded their own lace school to revive the craft, and this was quite profitable for several years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ó Cléirigh |first=Nellie |title=Carrickmacross lace: Irish embroidered net lace |year=1985 |publisher=Dolmen Press |location=Mountrath, Ireland |isbn=0-85105-436-6}}</ref> Although the outbreak of the 1914–18 war marked the virtual end of commercial production of hand-made lace in Europe, the lace school kept the technique alive throughout most of the 20th century. In 1984 the St Louis Sisters assisted in the formation of the Carrickmacross Lace Co-operative, which maintains the tradition to this day.<ref>{{cite web |title=Carrickmacross lace gallery |url=http://www.carrickmacrosslace.ie/acatalog/index.html |access-date=20 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520051550/http://www.carrickmacrosslace.ie/acatalog/index.html |archive-date=20 May 2013 |df=dmy}}</ref>