School: Enniscrone (B.)
- Location:
- Inis Crabhann, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: H. Faughman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0164, Page 013A
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Fishing - chiefly herring and salmon.
The fishing industry is one of the oldest and commonest industries in this district. Most of the people in this district depend on it. Every man in every house was engaged in the fishing industry long ago.
The names of the fish that were mostly caught were salmon, fluke, brill, sole, ray, herring, mackrel, pollock, whiting, ling, gurnet and many other kinds of fish. The dogfish is of no value and is thrown out again when they are caught.
Long ago people used to make their own nets and some of them used to make their own boats. The people who used to make their own boats were called boat-wrights. There are some boat-wrights in this district yet. Their names are Pat Dowd and Christy McKeown. Some of them also mend their own nets yet.
There were no herring caught in this
