School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Cill Liatháin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)candles. There was a factory for making woollens at Kilnagross, Co. Meath. The road is called the Factory road. Mrs. Coyne was a candle-maker. She used make them from rushes dipped in tallow got from suet.Pat Monaghan was a cooper. He used make churns, tubs and ferkins. Tom Harris used make wooden plates from the sycamore. Willie Lynch was a basket-maker.Price, Killucan, Co. Westmeath used make gates.
All the old women used spin their own wool and knit stockings.
