School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 235
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- (continued from previous page)slated house with an ordinary door.
Miss Caroline Pielow, used to make candles long ago for her own use out of rushes and tallow. She is dead now. Her address was Tomdarragh, Roundwood. Her mother before her also made candles.
Mrs Timmons, Water-bridge, Roundwood, use to spin the wool and then knit stockings of it. She is dead now.
Thatching houses is not carried on as it used to be, beacause most of the people are in New Labours Cottages.
There is one man who thatches his house is Patrick Nolan, Calary, Kilpedder. They are nearly gone out of date in this district as they are not as firm as the zinc and slated in a storm. Some of the people in this district make ropes out of course hay, or rushes for to put on their cocks of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs J. Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
