School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 015
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- (continued from previous page)Slane it would cost a half a crown. You would have to buy a handle for one shilling and a step for three pence and two rings from the Blacksmith.
Then you can settle it up yourself. Before it is worked you put in water to steep.
Then you get a man and pay him half a crown a day to cut the turf. There was none of that turf got this year 1938. The handle is about four feet long.The page includes a drawing, not reproduced here......A Slane.
Handle.
Swing.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- William Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
