School: Drumacruttan (roll number 10282)
- Location:
- Drumacruttan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Rreard A. Maclyam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 208
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- The most important industry carried on long ago was flax. It was grown and prepared to be scutched and the people skutched it (scutched it) at home. The women spun it into thread and the men wove it into linen. There was a man lived in Cosrsue who made baskets of sally rods and sold them in the town of monaghan about twenty five years ago. Every district had a thatcher who was kept thatching the houses winter and summer and he got good pay. Cooper Mcphilip was a great man for making churns and tubs and barrels and woden wheels he lived in Crossue. There were people who bought lime and burned it at home in their own Kilns. Old Mr Armstrong, Lisanlee. remembers when his father bought the green lime stone at a shilling a load and burned it at home in his own Kilns. Long ago there was a blacksmith whose mame was Mr Dolly.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thompson Moorpead
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Feragh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr David Thompson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Feragh, Co. Monaghan
