School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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- Collector
- Peggy Mc Creedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Monaghan
- Long ago there were few clocks. People had the sun dials for telling the time. The old people could tell the time by the sun or by the light of the sun thrown through a window or on the floor. The old clocks were called the wags of the wall. They had faces like clocks nowadays but had two heavy weights on chains. As the clock wore down the weights dropped to the floor. To wind the clock it was only needed to draw up the weights on the chains.