School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inis Tíog, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)Thomastown. The implements used are - a carpenter's chisel, hatchet, plane, spoke shave, a hammer and a rule. At first he gets wood from the mill and makes the spokes Having this done he makes the fellows putting about two holes in every one for the spokes to enter. Then he gets a round block of oak out of which he makes the box. While making the spokes he cuts litle small thin block to shorten them, which he puts afterwards in the box to tighten the spokes. Having this done he binds it in the "binding Stone" as it is called.(3)
James Lee Cappa, Inistioge made many ploughs for the farmers around. The implements used were drilling-machine, hammers, chisel, and the iron used in making the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edward Lee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Cheapach, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mr James Lee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- An Cheapach, Co. Chill Chainnigh
