School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)turf and potatoes and he used to make Gobains for calves.
There was a woman living beside John Coffee and she lived forty five years ago and she was about a hundred years of age when she died.
She used to make her living by making beasoms and selling them. She went by the name of "Jenie the Heath" because she used to make the beasoms of the heath.
There was a forge (at Earls Mill) belonging to William Ivory Bracklyn Delvin, Co. West Meath. He is dead about twenty six years, and he was nearly eighty when he died.
He did not work in it this last thirty years. There is a portion of the forge left yet.
John Flynn was a carpenter he is dead about fifty years.
Paddy Cusack, Coolronan, Ballivor(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Patrick Keogh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
