School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 409
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- (continued from previous page)years and he worked in the same forge. He used to shoe wheels in the haggard beside the house.
There isn't any work done since he died.
Weavers
There was a family named Keegan's living in the place where Jim Duignan, Coolronan, Ballivor Co. Meath is living now, and they used to weave. The last of them is dead about 25 years.
Thomas Balfe of Ballinadrimna, Ballivor was a good thatcher. He died on May 1937. He was 73 years of age when he died.
- There was a man named John Coffee he used to live in a little house thatched near where Ludlo's live in Coolronan. He is dead about forty five years and he was ninety eight years of age when he died.
He used to make baskets for holding(continues on next page) - Informant
- Patrick Keogh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
