School: Kilskeer (B.) (roll number 1421)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Máirtín Ó Loingsigh R. Ó Fithcheallaigh
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- Long ago people had a different way for fishing then we have now. They would have a piece of a stick about six feet long. They would stick a piece of steel into the top of the stick and have a crook in it, they would stick the crook in the fish in the water and lift him up on the crook.
- There was a man living in Crossakiel named Mick the Hatter. He used to make hats and whips. He would get a piece of a sally rod and tatch on a piece of leather or tie it with an eel skin and plait some flax cords to make a lash. He used to make sun hat with straw and rushes(continues on next page)