School: Dromad (roll number 16781)
- Location:
- Drumod, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Millicent "Nuabhroinn"
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- 8/7/38 Old CraftsWheel Making
My father is a carpenter and he makes all sorts of wood work and he usually makes wheel such as cart wheels and barrow wheels. These are the various parts in a cart wheel, first the nave [drawing of nave] then the holes are bored in the nave, and the spokes are put into it [drawing of a spoke] and the fellows [drawing of a fellow] are put on the spokes and then the boxel is put into the nave, and the shoeing on the wheel, and it is puttied and painted. [drawing of wheel and boxel]
- Collector
- Annetta Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Derrycarne Demesne, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Henry Thornton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Occupation
- Carpenter
- Address
- Derrycarne Demesne, Co. Leitrim
