School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)

Location:
Cappamore, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 164

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 164

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  1. My grandfather Michael Conroy was the last nail maker in Cappamore. He lived in the village of Cappamore, in the Barony of Owney Beg, in the County of Limerick. He used make two hundred nails a day. He is dead forty-years and he was sixty six years when he died. He used to sell nails in the big shops in this village, often he would go into Limerick and the nails dealer. When he would have all the nails sold he would buy more wire and messages. He used to make every kind of nail horse-nails, wire-nails, and six inch nails and tacks.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Conroy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Turagh, Co. Limerick