School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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- About forty years ago down near the Dundrum Station men used to make clogs.
The trees for making the soles grew plentifully in the wood near by. It was called alder wood. When the clogs were made they were sent away in the train. They had no tools only specially made knives. One of the men lodged at our house. He was an Englishman. - Mr Joseph Weston, Deerpark Hill,
Dundrum, is famed for making walking sticks.
First you select a suitable stick. The most(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tom Carter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary