School: Coole (roll number 3936)

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1. Essay on Local Crafts (continued)

   

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   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.

   

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2. Essay on Local Marriages

   

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   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

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. marriage (~4,283)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Liam Murtagh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carn, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   William Murtagh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carn, Co. Westmeath