School: Cluain Tuirc (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 216
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- Basket making is carried on in our townland in nearly every farmers house. When a person is going to make a basket he gets a lot of thin sally rods. Then he puts them in water to toughen them so that they will not break when bent. Next he gets a thick briar which he makes into a hoop. Then he splits three or four sally rods and puts them on the inside the hoop. He then gets the thin sally rods and twists them between the split ones until he gets to the end. Often times, the rods are peeled so that they would be white for clothes or potatoes.
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- Informant
- Hugh Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
