School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)making is no longer carried on. The nails were made of long rods of iron with the hammer and an anvil. The materail was heated in the fire until it was white hot. It was then taken out and on the anvil nails of various sizes and shapes were made. Then the nails were put into lb packets and sold. They were very dear but thery were very good nails. The nails made now are not half so good. In this forge nails of all sorts were made. They also made hinges, bolts, tongs, grid-irons, pig-rings, gold-fasts for eve gutters and staples.
Churn-making. In this district long ago churn-making was a very important trade. The coopers bought the oak in the shops and brought it home. Here it was sawn in lengths and planed, Next it was turned and shaped as a churn. The hoop-iron was bought and hoops were put on the churns. When they were made they brought them out and sold them in the markets. They called them dash-churns.
I got these crafts from my Grandmother Mrs Ml Cooney, Cloonee, Ballymoe, Co Galway, aged(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonee, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Ml. Cooney
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cloonee, Co. Galway
