School: Dromiskin (B.), Dundalk (roll number 837)
- Location:
- Dromiskin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Jas. Morgan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0666, Page 006
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Another thing that made these people strong and energetic was the constant exercise of working on the soil and fishing in the sea. The farm work then was much harder than now, owing to the lack of implements and machinery. The fish they generally got were shell-fish, which, when they had a quantity of, they brought to the nearest marketing town or into the country and sold them. The same was done with the farm products, such as potatoes and cabbage.
When the emigrating to America began some of our citizens went there, seeking work. To their credit they succeeded, in fact some of them became famous one of them being Mr(continues on next page)
