School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 223
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- There lived in the townland Cloonascoffagh a man named Johnny Moloney. He used to make wooden ploughs for almost every one around Dromore West. This man never learned this trade and still he was very clever at his work. It is said that if any man was in a hurry with a plough Johnny would make it in a day. He used to put no iron in any part of the plough except an iron-covering in the coulter. His ploughs were very light and still they were very strong and well made.
- Collector
- Joe Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
