School: Tamhnach tSeiscinn (roll number 12778)
- Location:
- Tawnytaskin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Tárpaigh
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- (continued from previous page)and left it on the table before him, where he was eating.
It was also said he was about the best carpenter in Ireland. He was always called Wheel-a-cracer, because he used to make a wheel of a cart that would let a crack every mile of the road it went.
He also made spinning wheels that would let a crack every hank of yarn it spun.- Collector
- John Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Deerpark, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Scanlon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Deerpark, Co. Roscommon