School: Clochar na Trócaire, Gráig na Manach
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 533
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- Nail-making was carried on in Graig to about sixty years ago. The nailers were Messrs Quin, Ringwood, and Curran. The work-shop resembled a forge. The implements he used are a bellows, a stake, a hardy, a tool, and a hammer. The stake is like a small anvil. He strikes the nails on it with the hammer. They cut the iron with the hardy, and put it into the tool. The tool is a short iron bar with a head on each end, and different size eyes on each side of it. The nail is put into this eye, and shaped with a hammer to form the head. A nailer is the busiest tradesman because he always has two irons in the fire at the same time. The nail's were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Peggy Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Rosie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Doharty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Philip Cushen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
