School: Hackettstown (2)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 485
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- (continued from previous page)Reilly made all the nails used for building and making the seats in Rathvilly chapel. Tom Reilly had a small forge. He heated the nails and cut them the length he required them.
Barrels and churns
are made by a tradesman called a cooper. When he is making a churn he has to send away to a factory for specially prepared pieces of wood which are called staves, as he could not make them out of ordinary wood.
When he gets home the staves he has to put them together. Then he gets five or six hoops, and put them around it to keep the staves bound very close together. He has to make the bottom and fit it into it, and he also makes the lid for it. These are the tools he uses, round nosed plane, chisel, hammer, hoop, rivets, saw, rachet, brace, bit, smoothing plane, jack plane, and a(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
