School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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- There was an industry carried on in this parish about ninety years ago called mail-making. The people used to bring a blade of an old scythe to the person that made the mails. There was a man in this parish called Edward Keegan who lived in Ardnagrath. He was a blacksmith and he was good for making articles out of iron. The people used bring him a blue duck egg for every scythe blade he converted into leather mails as payment for the work. This man is dead now but his son James Keegan still works at the forge.
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- Collector
- Maire Mc Garry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnagragh, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ardnagragh, Co. Westmeath