School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 114
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The following, from Denis Sheehan, 68 years, Stone-mason, Croom. Presently employed as clerk of works at the National school, which is being built here, illustrates pretty fully how self-dependent the masons of three generations ago were in certain details at least:My father, and his father before him were masons. I saw both of them make plumb bobs. The way they did it was this: According to the size of the bob they wanted, they took an egg, a duck-egg for a small bob, and a middling sized goose-egg for a large bob. The egg, of duck or goose as the case might be, was boiled, and the cap was removed very carefully. The (contents of the) egg was then eaten, and the shell was carefully pierced at the unopened end, and a twig of privit run through the (Continued on page 117)(continues on next page)