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School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)

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Glenties, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cathal Mac Duibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1051B, Page 22_021

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    4. Long ago the smiths regular work was making bread Irons, bolts for doors, Iron gates, rasps and lasts for making shoes, tips and toe plates, tip nails and toe plate nails, horse shoes and horse shoe nails.
    5. First sprinkle the wool with sweet oil then tease it, then card it and make rolls of it. Then spin it into thread, fill the thread on bobins and put the bobins in a shuttle. Then move the shuttle back and forward. Then you weave the thread through the warph and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Padruig Ó Baoghaill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumnasillagh, Co. Donegal