School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 245
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- Woodwork, such as the making of tubs, churns, pails, keelers, firkins, skimmers, butter hands, and other articles was made by a cooper named John Laffan who lived in the townland of Drom, in the parish of Drom, Co. Tipperary. These articles were made out of seasoned timber principally out of ash, and oak, and sycamore. The pails and churns were made for holding milk. The firkins were used for holding butter. The skimmers for skimming the cream off the keelers of milk, and the butter hands for making the butter into rolls and for helping to fill the firkins with butter. People who required those articles used to go to the cooper and give their order and he would make them. No other persons used to make this work only a cooper himself.
- Collector
- Margaret Troy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Tobias Troy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Long ago there was a spinning wheel in almost every house. The wool was first taken off the sheep. Then it was taken to the mill(continues on next page)
