Scoil: Allenwood, Robertstown (uimhir rolla 1712)

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1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “There were a lot of trades carried on long ago.”

   

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   soot. A traveller called Barney Brien, who was a cooper, went around stopping in the houses, and he mended churns, and made firkins for holding butter, and wooden vessels called "coolers" about a foot high for holding cream. A travelling tradesman called Jim Flummery used to go about the country. He was a nailer. He carried the tools around with him. He sold boot-nails at 2 1/2-a a hundred. He always went in his barefeet, and he worked out on the roadside. There was another nailer in Robertstown called Peter Phillips. He made nails and pig rings. He sold boot-nails at 3-a per hundred.
   A man named John Warracks (Warwick?) who lived in Ballyteague used to spin silk and sell it in the market in Robertstown. The field where he lived is still called "Warrack's field." Long ago people around here had to pay tithes to the Protestant Minister in Kilmeague, whose name was Preston. Bailiffs called tithe procters used to go around gathering the money. Anyone who would not pay the money, a cow or a horse was taken from him, and sold at

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Marcella Ennis

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Gráinseach Chláir Thiar, Co. Chill Dara

   Faisnéiseoir

   Patrick Cleary

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   Fireann