School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 008
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Basket making was carried on in a place called Glen Cám. The people used to make them by gathering a lot of sallies and plaiting them together. They used to make them for many purposes and they used them for picking potatoes in them.
Spades were made by a man named Brennan he had a forge in Gowran. There was weaving carried on in Goresbridge but the house it was carried on, is knocked down. There was nails made in Gowran by a man named Murphy.
Pupils Name Told By
Nancy Lawler Mrs Mac Donagh
Gowran Gowran
Co. Kilkenny Co. Kilkenny
Aged 84 years.
- Collector
- Nancy Lawler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Mac Donagh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
