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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 344

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    they worked as fast "as busy as nailers".
    They dropped the nail ito water or oil according to the kind of work they were required for. They did not rust then.
    When the machine-made nails came in "Cut Nails" they called them, the Scally's business dwindled away.
    She saw linen made - the flax sown. Potato track - dug - harrowed, then shake the flax - seca - a bushwas drawn carefully over it; The bush was drawn by the men themselves. A bush with a scraw - put on it - to weight it. The flax would be pulled about
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Gorman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Leitrim