School: Coole (roll number 3936)
- Location:
- Coole, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cormaic
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- (continued from previous page)you were going to tan. Those holes were filled with soap and water and the leather was put into the holes. After some time the hair falls off the skin. It was then put out to dry. It took two years to give the leather a complete finish. The leather long ago was made of oakbark, but nowadays the leather is made by machinery which only takes twenty four hours.
Peggy Meehan
Clonave, Coole, Co Westmeath,
Told to me by
Kate Keenagh
aged 69 years
Clonave, Coole,
Co Westmeath.
- Marriages were very different long ago than they are now. Long ago in this parish the Marriages were held at night but now they are held in the morning. There was a old costom for ban beggars and straw boys to go [from going] round the night of the marriages.
There would be a lot of dancing, music, singing(continues on next page) - Collector
- Liam Murtagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carn, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- William Murtagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carn, Co. Westmeath
