School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)
- Location:
- Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Louis A. Duffy
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“In the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one there lived a man named John Fitzpatrick of Ballyrush, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan.”
In the year nineteen hundred and twenty - one there lived a man named John Fitzpatrick of Ballyrush, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. He was known as a good candle - maker. He used to make them from rushes. He would pull the rushes from the root and take a bit of the skin off them. He then would grease them with resin, and they would for about ten minutes.
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“Some time ago there lived a man named Peter Maguire of Miskish, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan.”
Some time ago there lived a man named Peter Maguire of Miskish, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. He could make barrels, and he could also make churns. - James Finn, Drumboat, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, is a good maker of wheels.