School: Ballinahinch (roll number 11191)
- Location:
- Ballynahinch, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss E. Merrick
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0577, Page 077
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballinahinch
- XML Page 077
- XML “Nail-Making”
- XML “Thatching”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Nail making was carried on to some extent in former days. The descendants of the nail makers live locally and are appropriately nicknamed the nailer. This man's grandfather supplied nails in bulk and for many years to farmers and others in the locality.
- Thatching was also done locally - we have families still nicknamed the thatcher" and in a few houses they still jealously find the "garsún" on little straw bundles which holds the scallops
