School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)different ailments.
Fames Fallons father is able to make boot polish. He makes it out of heel ball bees wax and turpentine he gets an old saucean and boils them together and leaves them all boiling for a quarter of an hour.
The he leaves it in a cool place then it is polish.
Another old craft is thatching Jim Ledwith is a good thatcher. He has to go miles to thatch and Thomas Murray of Ballinlug is a good Thatch.
Another old craft was the making of oaten Bread.
