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School: Páirc na Rian (C.), Rampark, Jenkinstown (roll number 4882)

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Rampark, Co. Louth
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M. Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 245

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    My great grandfather Thomas Clarke used to make candles from tallow and rawsen.
    People named Gallahers from Bellurgan used to go around the country buying sally rods with which they made baskets and chairs.
    There is a house on the side of the mountain in which there is a loom and a woman named Peggy Breen carried on weaving there long ago.
    There was a cooper living at Bellurgan Point who used to make churns, barrels and tubs.
    There was Linen weaving in Rockmarshall long ago and a great-grandfather of James Rice the shoemaker
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Dhiarmada
    Gender
    Female