School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)makes stockings and other woollen goods with the woollen spinning wheel still.
- In olden times the people knew many trades, but many of them have been forgotten now. There was a man called Thomas Howard in Redgate who was a famous basket-maker. It is said that he descended from the Danes He used to make chairs, cradles, cages for blackbirds and thrushes and other different sorts of baskets. Long ago people always kept a blackbird or a thrush in the house and so he got great demand for the cages. He also got great demand for calf-baskets and cradles.
- Collector
- Patrick O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Woodcockhill, Co. Clare
- In the year 1887 lime was burned in Coonagh in a place called the "Lime Kiln." The Kiln is still to be seen as well as the stones from which the lime was burned.(continues on next page)