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School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)

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Glen, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 361

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  2. Old Crafts - Nail-Making

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    Nail making
    Some hundred years ago in the townland of Drumacool there lived a nail-maker about one hundred yards from where my house is situated. He lived in a hollow on my Grandfathers land along the side of a brae and that brae is called the Nailor's brae. Behind his little hut he had a kind of forge in which he made the nails of rod iron, the nails he made were something similar to the horse nails we use now. He cut the rod into equal bits, put
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. nail-making (~117)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Enda Horan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drummacool, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Keon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Drummacool, Co. Sligo