School: Naomh Pádraig, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13265)

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1. Thatching

   

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   Terry Walsh, 25 Walkin Street, Kilkenny.
   I got these stories from my father. (49 years)
   Thatching
   There was a man named Jim O Shea who used live in number 27 Walkin Street, Kilkenny. He is dead forty years. He was a very good thatcher and the people used to ask him to thatch their houses. One day he was thatching an old house in which nobody lived. While he was thatching the roof collapsed and he got smothered.

   

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2. A Cooper

   

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   A Cooper There was a man named Bill Delaney who lived in Walkin Street, Kilkenny. He was a cooper and he used to work for Patrick Walsh. Bill used to make barrels for him up in a loft. During his spare time he used to make firkins for the country people. One day while he was making a firkin he fell from the loft and died.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. coopering (~87)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Terry Walsh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny

   Informant

   Mr Walsh

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49

   Address

   Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny