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School: Teampall Mhuire

Location:
Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 295

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    The first thing is to clean off all weeds and fill or level any hollows. Then you start to thatch by carefully scollaping your ladder, breadth by breadth at the eve and carefully covering the scollaps with the next handful in your breadth, up along the barge till you come to the top
    Then you start on another breadth being careful to clean out any grain that may fall along the side of the ladder. Being careful to join evenly the laps at each breadth lest the ladder may lay impressions and show out
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. thatching (~353)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tessie Rogers
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Palmerstown, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Rogers
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Palmerstown, Co. Mayo