School: An Carraigín (roll number 13836)
- Location:
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Oireachtaigh
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- (continued from previous page)it in balls. Then the ropes were made by twisting the threads and the bark of ash trees together so as to make the ropes stiff and strong.
This man did a good trade, because his work was liked by everyone, and all the people bought his ropes.
- There was a simple industry known as nail-making carried on in the townland of Lavagh some fifty years ago. The man who made these nails was named Harvey and he carried on his work in a house - a barn now - at the crossroads convenient to Carnadoe Creamery. The nails were made from a long thin bar of iron called a nail-rod. He used to put this rod into the fire and make it red hot, then with a tongs carry it to the(continues on next page)
