School: Ros Nuala (Rossnowlagh) (roll number 11599)
- Location:
- Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhaoláin
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- (continued from previous page)An arch and wound in with finer rods. There is another way to make a basket, put sticks standing up and weave other thinner ones round them, starting at the top. People used a rush with the green skin taken off it and it split in two, then it was sipped in some kind of oil, which used to make it burn longer. This was the kind of lights they used.Sprigging was another very important and prosperous industry. It is carried on yet but not so much as it used to be.
- Collector
- Vera Stronge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Stronge
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female