School: Balscadden (roll number 9492)

Location:
Balscaddan, Co. Dublin
Teachers:
P. Ó Séaghdha Francis Shaw
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    bow for the fiddle out of horse hairs. And turned the wood in the fiddle by steaming it. He completed fiddle and bow without going to a shop for any part of it. As he says this fiddle was med and pled in Balscadden. This Mr Tommy Howard makes graves, build houses, mends clocks, and watches. paints and papers houses and printed the name on this school in Gaelic.
    Jane Larkin VII
    Told by Mr Howard
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jane Larkin
    Gender
    Female