School: Baile na mBreathnach (Welchtown) (roll number 9882)
- Location:
- Welchtown, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. A. Alcorn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1093, Page 096
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- 1. Basket making
First of all, gather fine rods, and boil them. After they are boiled well take and peel them. Then let them dry well, and then make the basket, in whatever shape you like.
Making of Gates
Cut down a bush, and take it to the sawmills. And get it sawed into any length you want the board's. Then nail the board's together, in whatever shape you want the gate.
Painting.
Wash the wood well first and let it dry well. Then mix the paint well, and have a paint brush and rub the paint evenly on the wood.
Thatching
You that with either straw or flax. Clean off the old thatch first, and put on the new flax, then take and fasten it down with scolips.
- Collector
- Freddy Hardy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Largnalore, Co. Donegal
