School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 249
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- There was a man living in Ballymore about fifty years ago by the name of Cornelius Knight. He lived in a little mud-wall cabin between Casey's and Moran's in the west end of the village of Ballymore. He used to make nails and stay up the whole night.During the day he would go around and sell them. It is said that he often made four pounds of nails in the night. He would make them with an anvil and a bit of wire. He would beat the wire with a hammer and cut it to whatever length he would want it. Then he would have a file and he would file a point on it. Knight lived to the age of ninety-six. He had a very large family and many of them are married in the parish.
- Collector
- Michael Hanevy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullenmeehan, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Peter Cornelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
