School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 408
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- (continued from previous page)Michael Devine: Frane, Athboy Co. Meath used to make ciabs from spodagh and baskets for potatoes and coops for pigeon's
Spodagh is the white turf got on the high bank.
John Priest of Baskinagh Athboy makes gobans for calves he also thatches.
He is (about) over seventy years of age.
goban = little basket put on a young calf's head.
A man named Mick Masterson lived in Fraine Bog in a little straw house that you would have to stoop to go into.
He earned his living by making besoms of heath and he used to cut the thorns of the briars and split them and tie them round the beasoms and sell them in Athboy for a halfpenny each.
There is an old forge at Earls Mill belonging to Paddy Kelly. He is about fifty years of age.
His father is dead about twenty(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynadrimna, Co. Meath
