School: Ballyhogue
- Location:
- Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs. Margaret Cahill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 217
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- Mary E. Kavanagh
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- Brigid Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
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- Patrick Kavanagh
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- Age
- 54
- Address
- Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
- When a hurl-maker is going to make a hurl he goes out around the land and looks for an ash tree with a curve on the butt of it. When he is cutting them down he has to be careful not to cut down a tree with knots in it because it would break. When he cuts down a stick he has to bring it to the saw-mill to get the sticks sawed into planks and then he cuts out the(continues on next page)
