School: Corry (roll number 7011)
- Location:
- Corry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Cox
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0741, Page 304
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- Old Nellie Harte who lived in Ballygarvey used to make rush candles. The way she made them was. She got a handful of rushes and peeled them. Then fryed fat on a grisset then draw them along in the greece and left them up to dry and then she had her candles made. She was also a powerful spinner.
Basket and cleave making
Pat Caulfield can make baskets and cleaves.
Wheel and cart making
Ody McLaughlin, Croshea and James Mac Dermot, Mostrim can make carts and wheels. Old Jack Duche who is not very long dead used also make wheels.
Dyers
There lived a man about at Ballynacarragy his name was Wilson and he was a wonderful dyer.
- Collector
- Mary Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Pat Caulfield
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Ballygarvey, Co. Westmeath
