School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 421
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- (continued from previous page)potato land to help to make the crop much better.
- Rope MakingWhen people build their stacks of hay they make ropes to tie them down for fear the hay would blow away.They get a battle of hay and shake it up evenly. Then one lets out the hay through his hands while another twists it into a fine rope with a twister or trahook shaped like the above.Then they put the rope straight over the top of the stack. Then if it is corn stacks the ropes are made of straw and are made in the same way as hay-ropes and are put on in the same way.
- Long ago weaving was carried on in this District, but the people who did it are dead.The wool is first spun into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philip Hirrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenyollan, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Brian Mac Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenyollan, Co. Donegal
