School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0104, Page 030
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- Long ago the women when carrying their eggs to the market used to carry them in cans and buckets. As time went by, I invented another way for carrying them. I took four rods and put the ends of them in to the ground into a square. I began to weave the rods until the basket was a foot high. Then I drew them across and started to weave the rods to make the bottom. When I had the bottom finished I drew the hand basket from the ground and placed it on the bottom until I got a handle across the centre of the basket. When the handle was complete I had to make a lid. I got a lo*(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Hennelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Hennelly
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo