School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- (continued from previous page)several years and no rain could penetrate it.
The old people were also able to supply their needs in light and soap.
As a rule children collected the large fat bull rushes and peeled off the out skin. The soft part was drawn slowly through a grisset of boiling fat and hung up in the corner to dry.Many years ago in place called Piercefield near Ballynacargy there was a man named Willie Allen. He cold make churns, barrels, horses carts, box barrows, ladders, and firkins for holding butter. He could also make windows, doors, tables, chairs, bins for holding meal and flour, dressers, and pressbeds.
