School: Glostremin (roll number 15441)
- Location:
- Glasdrumman, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Maire Nic an Bháird
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- My father Thomas Reynolds Adoon Lower is a thatcher. He practiced the trade himself from his youth. He is not living by trade as he is a farmer. He thatches for himself and his neighbours when thatch and rushes. First the rushes are pulled and put into neat bundles then these bundles are brought up to where he is thatching on the house and he puts them on with scollops. His thatching lasts for three or four years and would last longer only for the birds that tear it. These birds are the blackbird, the thrush and the starling and the sparrow.
- Collector
- Michael Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
