School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)

Location:
Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 198

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 198

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  3. XML “Old Crafts - Candle-Making”
  4. XML “Old Crafts - Basket-Making”
  5. XML “Old Crafts - Thatching”

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  2. The way the people made their own baskets in olden times was in this way. They got a sod and stuck the rods and weaved them out and in till the basket was made. This work is going on yet in this district.
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  3. In olden times it was nearly all thatched houses they had about here.
    The way they thatched their houses was with straw, some with rushes and others flax.
    The rushes were all cut and laid out to dry. Then they put them on the roof, and and then they put rods on the top of the rushes to hold them down.
    This work is still going on.
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