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School: Lios an Uisce (roll number 15647)

Location:
Lissinisk, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máighréad Ní Chárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1102, Page 35

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    "Thatching"
    When you are going to thatch you must have either lints or straw, or russies and also you must have scallobs scraped, and the are called thatching scollabs. Then you get a long ladder and put it up on the roof. Then you take your thatch and scollabs with you and go up on the roof and begin to thatch the put on the thatch piece by piece.
    Tessie McCarron
    Finnadurk
    Convoy
    Co. Donegal
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tessie Mc Carron
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Finnadork Glebe, Co. Donegal