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School: Breacaire Beag (roll number 14891)

Location:
Brackary Beg, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0192, Page 241

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    Basket-making is a trade which is followed in this townland. It was a very old and useful trade. It is not carried on so much now as in olden times. This trade was followed by a man named Patrick McDermott, Faughary, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. He makes different kinds of baskets, the round basket for holding eggs, the flat basket for teeming potatoes, and the whooped basket for carrying turf. The rods had to go through a lot of processes. First of all they had to be seasoned and then they had to be peeled and boiled. Then the little hoop and [?] were got and the rods were weaved through them.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. basket-making (~471)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Mc Guinness
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Faughary, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Dermott
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Faughary, Co. Leitrim