School: Baile Gaedhealach (B.) (roll number 14808)

Location:
Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Míchael Ó Slatara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 128

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    For them he usually boiled and peeled the rods. He could be seen every week going to Ballindine market with about ten egg baskets tied together and carried on his back unless he happened to get a lift on the road. Since his death about twenty years ago there is no basket-maker in this locality
    Heard from Tom Cosgrove Lisduff
    agree 80 years
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. basket-making (~471)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Tom Cosgrove
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Lisduff, Co. Mayo