School: An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin (roll number 7911)
- Location:
- Curragh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine
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- (continued from previous page)Mandeville was another man who was famous for his great strength. He used to extract teeth with an ordinary pinchers.
Bill Walsh lived in the same locality.
He could cut half an acre of corn in one day with a scythe.
Shops
There were two shops, one near the chapel of Ballybacon and the other at Kilgroggy. Kit Russell lived alone in the first one. She sold pipes, tobacco, snuff, herrings. The shop contained one room only. Hennesseys lived in the second shop. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Tomás Ó h-Icidhe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary
- Forges. There were two forges, one owned by Paddy Lonergan and the second by John Dunne. The bellows was made of 2 slabs of elm with leather all round the edge to keep in the air.