School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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- Old CraftsCollected by Joan Carty, Rathkenny, Slane, DroghedaFrom Patrick Powderly, Do. 73 yearsThere lived in the townland of Mullaghmore beside this school a man named Lochy Feeley. He was a turner by trade and made his living by making stools, dishes and churn jogglers. He lived in a house covered with iron, build by Cormac Rowe.
He made his dished and stools with an instrument called a lathe. First of all he had a pole going through the wall of the house out into a "gablóg" (??) and the narrow end of it came in through the window and down on to a foot-board. On this board Lochy used to press his feet and the pole would spring and it was in this way he worked on it.He got a block of sycamore wood and placed it where the pole sprang up and down. The block was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Carty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Patrick Powderly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
