School: Stabannon, Castlebellingham (roll number 5457)
- Location:
- Stabannan, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Oisín
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- (continued from previous page)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. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Aaron Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Occupation
- Seller
- Address
- Castlebellingham, Co. Louth
- Travelling Folk 16th July 1938Travelling folk still call to the houses. They seem to be very poor. Some of the sell small articles such as delph, pins, thread(continues on next page)