School: Coralstown (roll number 1314)
- Location:
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Beóláin
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- (continued from previous page)for breaking flax. A beetle was much like a hammer only it had a wooden head on it. She would stay all day breaking flax in one house then they would have a dance that night. The next day she would go to the next house and so on until she had visited all the farmers houses in the district. They called the dances "The harvest home."
- There was a forge in Hightown which has disappeared this number of years. It was between Hightown cross-roads and Cooney's shop and it stood where Reid's cottage now stands. It was owned by a man named Glynn whoes father used to make pikes for the pike men in the year nintyeight. As well as being a smith he used to pull teeth for the people. The way he used to draw the teeth was he used to make a strong wax end and tie it firmly round the tooth. Then he would tie the other end to the anvil so that the person's face would be about a yard from the anvil.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinla, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinla, Co. Westmeath
