School: Hackettstown (2)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 484
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- (continued from previous page)on outside as well round both sides of the nave. Next he makes holes in the nave and drives the spokes into this. Then he cuts out the fellows with a band saw. He puts on the fellows. The wheel is then taken to the forge. The wheelmarker uses the following implements hammer, chisel, punch, pincers, and a wheel block.
Nail making
There were two families of Reillys who made nails about sixty years ago in Hacketstown. They bought the wire in Dublin. They made different sizes of nails, horse shoe nails, nail for repairing boots, nails for putting up wooden houses, and nails for slating. The used to supply all the local shoemakers with nails. The carpenters got slating nails from them. The local black smiths also got their supplies from them. Tom(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Violet Seabrooke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
