School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)
- Location:
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Kathleen Grehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)& small iron bars called nail rods. Each of them had 2 pieces of iron at a time in the fire when one iron was red enough they took it out and pointed it on the anvil and then put it into a little shape & left the making of a head on it. This piece they flattened out with a hammer. They made all classes of nail & they are to be got in old timber still.
There was a rhyme made about them by a shoe-maker Pat Cahill -
They had not enough nails made for him one time & he composed a rhyme about them:
Johny Gee went on the spree,
And did not make the nails,
Heel nails, sole nails, pound tack & pavers
All made at Jack Gee's
The Nailer.
