School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- The smith makes ploughs, harrows, and axes but he does not make spades, shovels, and pikes. About twenty-five years ago the smiths used to repair spades by welding a piece of steel to the top of the spade. This was called "laying" the spades. A that time he used also make and repair gruffawns. There are scarcely any gruffawns now used in this locality, as potatoes are not as a rule sown in "cold graff now. "Cold graff is the name(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cornelius Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Barry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork