School: Sliabh na Cille (roll number 14513)
- Location:
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha
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- XML “Old Crafts - Nail-Making”
- XML “Pottery Work”
- XML “Old Crafts - Lime-Burning”
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- (continued from previous page)until the iron would be red hot. Then they used to take the nail-rod and cut whatever length of a nail they wanted off it with an instrument caleld a "cutler". Then they got an instrument called a "print" and they used to shape out the nail with it. There was a little hole in the anvil the shape of the nail. They used to put the nail into the little hole and hammer it. Then they used to flatten a head on it. The nail was then ready for use.(Margaret Mc Gourty from her grandfather, James McGourty of Slievenakilla and Cáit Mc Grail from her father, Francis Mc Grail of Slievenakilla.)
- The people long ago used to make pottery. They used to get the clay and bake it until it would be hard. Then they would polish it.(Anthony Cornyn from his father, Peter Cornyn of Tullynaha.)
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- Collector
- Farrell O' Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carntullagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Hugh O' Rourke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carntullagh, Co. Leitrim