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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 120

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    Folklore Old Craft
    Tanning leather
    About forty perches from this school on the Ballynacargy road there lived a man about thirty years ago. He was called the Tanner Lyons because he used to prepare the skins of beasts for rugs and even for boots and shoes/
    The park then held hundreds of deer and the tanner often got a deer skin which used to prepare and keep soft by some secret. Goat skins and sheep skins used to be treated for rugs and cow and calf hide for boots and clogs. His sons were not able to coax the secret from him.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. tanning (~61)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phyllis Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Irishtown, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Larry Lyons
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballintue, Co. Westmeath