School: Carlanstown (roll number 884)
- Location:
- Carlanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gérbheannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)This forge was a great big one. Its output consected of about a hundred things made every day. There was also a limekiln in Newtown. The people mad a lot of lime in it. There is the remains of an old limekiln in the field called the limekiln Field but this limekile has not been worked for about a hundred years. And that was a long time.
- It is supposed that in olden days some people had certain day for being to work. Some people belived that if you went to a new house any day except Friday you would have no luck.More say that you should begin work on a Monday and if not your crop will not grow as well as well as you put it in on a Monday(continues on next page)