School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)used in the fellows is ash. The name of the timber in the spokes is elm and in the stock oak. When he is making wheels the first thing he does is to turn the stock and saw the fellows and the spokes. He has six fellows and twelve spokes in each wheel. He has a compass to have an equal distance from each spoke. Then he has to mortise the stock and then tenon the spokes and dress them. Then he drives the spokes into the stock. Then he has to thang the spokes for the fellows and dress them. Then he fits the fellows on the spokes. Then he marks the fellows on the spokes and he makes holes in the fellows with a auger. Then he makes holes in the fellows for the dowels. Then he rounds the inside edges of the wheel with a spokeshave. Then he drives the fellows on the spokes and then he levels the fellows with a plane.
Collected by William Byrne (13) from his father Thomas Byrne (50), of Bracklin, Kilbeggan, W'Meath.
- Rope Making
First a large ball of binder twine is placed in a manner to run freely. This twine is placed on a three pronged twister at one end in a compact frame and at the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Joseph Boland
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 23
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
