School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
- Location:
- Barraduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)twisting three rods one about the other.
There are two further buinnes before he makes the saiteán or bottom of the basket.
The ribs are doubled in the saiteán.
When the weather is bad the basket maker has a hard life and very readily catches cold because he has little movement and as the occupation is seasonal he suffers terribly from pains in the back until he becomes accustomed to the work.
But what is worst is that he has sometimes owing to the weather, to give up work.
Beside Barraduff School is a farmer named Denis Thade Shea who makes his own baskets.
He hit on a plan for working indoors and this was it - he cut green sods in a field and brought them into the floor of his house. He stood a rib in each sod and worked away. He is about sixty five years of age but is remarkably stout and found it difficult to work "under" him.
A colleague of mine who teaches in Barraduff School is Donnchadh Ua Conaill. He is forty five years of age and was born and reared at Bearna in the parish of Glenflesk. His father was an extensive farmer part of whose lands were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
