School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 7636)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br. L. Ó Súilleabháin
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- In olden times each district in Ireland was well supplied with craftsmen. It was not confined to cities or larger towns. About two miles west of Mountrath there was a foundry & some very good mettle work turned out, and this was at : Crannagh : on the banks of the river Nore. In Mountrath cooperage was a great trade, & up to about twenty years ago when the last survivors of the great trade passed away. Those people were William, Frank, & Thomas Dooceys. They made churns, & all class of butter requisties, Kellers, ferkins. Weaving also flourished here up to about seventy years ago when it was given up owning to British Rule. When the people who worked at the business had to follow their trade to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- B. Dunne
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
