School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cappamore
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Benin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0521, Page 130
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- Old Crafts or trades were carried on in this locality in days gone by. There is a forge in Knocknacorriga owned by a man named Collins, whose forefathers carried on a brisk trade in the manufacture of spades, shovels, ploughs, and gates.
Basket-making was carried on in the district until quite lately. Old women used to make the baskets.
There was a very large limekiln in Clogher, about twenty years ago. A man named Patrick O'Donoghue who died about fifteen years ago, that owned the kiln. Lime is still burned in Gurtavalla, by a man named Patrick O'Grady.
Firkins were made in this district by people called Coopers(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Dhonncha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- S. Ó Donncha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Limerick
