School: Meelick (roll number 14592)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 326
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- The people of this locality had several crafts long ago. The chief crafts were cleeve-making, the making of crockery, and candle-making. In making candles the people got rushes called bull-rushes and peeled the green skin off them by boring a hole in tin and pulling the rushes through. Then grease was rubbed on them and they were allowed to get hard. The local people used [to] make cleeves as a man named Conry was engaged in this craft. The making of crockery was carried on by a woman called Clarke in the village of Meelick. She used [to] dig clay in her own field and wet with milk. Then she made a hole in a field the shape of a crock and plastered the wet clay on the sides. Then it was left the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Ganly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonmaul, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmaul, Co. Roscommon
