School: Athboy
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Néill Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 318
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- (continued from previous page)Many years ago basket making was carried on in this district. A man by the name of John Butterfield often went to the Boyne near Trim in a donkey and cart to get rushes. He would bring home a cart full of rushes to make baskets. He sold his baskets and made a good lot of money. John Butterfield died about thirty years ago.
- Michael Smith, Rathmore, Athboy, used to make baskets. He sold everykind of baskets, and he made plenty of money at it. He is dead forty years.
- Richard Kearney, Clonmore, Kildalkey was a great basket-maker. He made a a lot of money by it. He died about eleven years ago.
- Collector
- Tom Glennon
- Gender
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