School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)make firkins for butter and he used to make tubs also.
His (name) son Paddy used to make the same things.
They both lived in the mill-yard.
A man named (Tow) Tom Shields was skilled in the making of nails
He used to have thin rod-iron for making them, which he used to redden in the fire and cut into small pieces and hammer a flat top on them.
He lived beside the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Annracán
- Other names
- Máire Ní Annracán
- Maisie Hanrahan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
