School: Rathwire (B.) (roll number 8415)
- Location:
- Rathwire, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ó Gallóglaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 392
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Rathwire (B.)
- XML Page 392
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title) (continued)
“There are three forges in the parish.”
(continued from previous page)was done in the open air just outside the forge.
(no title)
“There is only one tailor in this district.”
There is only one tailor in this district. His name is Patrick Bracken. His father and grand-father carried on the same trade. He stocks his own cloth but people can buy their own and bring them to be made by him. He employs two or three men. Some of these men spend a few years in the village and then start travelling about from one tailor's shop to another. They usually come back again and spend a few more years working in the village. When the freize mill was in Thomastown the local farmers brought their wool to it and got it made into freize cloth. Clothes and top coats made of this freize was often handed down from father to son. (no title)
“The name if our village is Cill Lucáin but there is no account of who Lucán was..”
The name of our village is Cill Lucáin but there is no account of who Lucán was or where he came from to this district. Gaelic Scholars such as Rev Fr Paul Walsh P.P. Multyfarnham, have failed to discover any information about this saint. The R.C. Church in Rathwire is St Joseph's. (no title)
“There are the ruins of an old Catholic Church still standing in the Protestant graveyard.”
There are the ruins of an old catholic church still standing in the Protestant graveyard. It is said to date back to the early Norman(continues on next page)