School: Stabannon, Castlebellingham (roll number 5457)

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1. Crafts - Nailers (continued)

   

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   for generations before that by people named McGinn. The rod iron was made in Ardee. They made slater's nails and shoemaker's nails. They had little moulds into which they would make the spike of the nail. Them they would hammer out the head. Then the War came they had to give up making the nails as they could not get the iron.

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2. Spinning

   

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   Spinning
   An old woman lived at the pound in Kilsaran. Named Sally Flynn. She came originally from Co. Cavan. The poor woman would go round the hedges gathering the wool left by the sheep. She would spin it then

   

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3. Travelling Folk

   

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   Travelling Folk 16th July 1938

   Travelling folk still call to the houses. They seem to be very poor. Some of the sell small articles such as delph, pins, thread

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