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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- (continued from previous page)Then they had to stick the rush into the pot of "grease." When they took it out they had to let it cool. Then they put it in again and so on till it was the right shape.
- 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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- Collector
- Dolly Buchanan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sockar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr L Buchanan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Sockar, Co. Donegal
