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   very bad light and smoked a lot when burnin. When the people had no candles they learned their lesson and played cards by the fire-light

   

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2. Basket-Making

   

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   Long 'go when I was a "gasoon" nobody had carts to bring home the turf or do any other work on their houldins (farms). They used "cleeves" (baskets) instead tied on the asses back. This is how the "cleeves" were made. "Sally (sallow) rods that were not very thick were cut and tied in bundles. When the "cleeve" maker had sorted the rods he took two more and stuck them in the ground together, then he took two more and stuck them in the ground about four inches down from the first. He kept on at this until he had made a square two or three feet each way or each side. He wove the rods in and out through the rods that were standin' until he had woven the cleeve the height he wanted it. Then he twisted the ends of the rods, that were

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. basket-making (~471)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Gannon

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patsy Keenahan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Keeloges East, Co. Galway