School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 219
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- There were nailers in Timoleague long ago. They lived where Mrs Moore is living now. The father, William Allman had a forge at the back of the house. There was a big fire and a big bellows in the forge. The nailer used to buy a cwt weight of iron bars, of different lengths.
From these iron bars the nails used to be made. He had a special tool called a "nippers" for holding the bars of iron, and he also had an anvil on which the iron used be laid. The "nippers" is a kind of pincers. Mr Allman made "crabbit-head" nails, for shoemakers, and long nails for the boats in Courtmacsherry. The nailers' forge was much like a smith's forge.
Weaving was a great industry in Timoleague long ago. There were eleven weavers in the village, eight of them were living in Abbey St and for that reason Abbey St was called the "factory". Tom Belle was living in Main St, OBrien in the Chapel Hill and Casey in Mill St
Tom Belle, Con Shea, and Charles Rivers(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Úna Ní Mháthúna
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hourihane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
