School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 053
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- My father, who is an old man told me that longago a man named James Walsh was a great nail maker lived in Boherboy a mile south of Dunlavin. His main occupation was making nails. He used to make two and six inch nails for woodwork, and for shoeing horses.
He had a certain way for cutting out the shape of the nails. Then he would put the nails into the fire and hammer a flat head on it. He used to make square thin nails with long pointed tops on them for woodwork. When he had the nails finished he would put them into a big iron pot until he would get sale for them.
- Collector
- Christopher O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathbawn, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr J. Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Rathbawn, Co. Wicklow
