School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)
- Location:
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dáithí de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 124
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- John Buckley
- Gender
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- Age
- 70
- Address
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- A family named Goggin kept a forge in Mrs Lynch's field at Tubrid, Minane Bridge. This field is now known as páirc na ceardchan. They usually made plough parts.
There was also a forge in Mrs Lynch's field near the priest's gate. - The people had a holder for the rush lights made of wrought iron. Mr ONeill T.D. Kinsale, at the request of a friend, procured one of these holders from a house near Ballycastle, Co Antrim
But in this district the end of the pádóg was bent up and inserted in the sconce(There is a drawing in the margin)
