School: Nurney (roll number 16345)
- Location:
- Nurney, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S. Ó Buadhcháin
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There were three mills one at Nurney, one at Harristown and one in Walterstown. Besides forges and carpentry there was a Straw house and a Plat House on an old road from Nurney to Kildoon. The people worked straw for straw hats. There was a house called the Cock House where game cocks were trained for fighting
The crops grown up to up to a 100 years ago were wheat and potatoes.
The wheat was reaped with reaping hooks. Most of the reapers were migratory labourers from Connaught and a great many of them married and built mud huts in the neighbourood- Collector
- Francis Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nurney, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Stephen O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nurney, Co. Kildare