School: Boitheach (roll number 1238)
- Location:
- Boyagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1100, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)The thatcher takes his knife and levels off the straw.
Along the sea-shore the roof's of houses are not fastened on by rods but are tied down by ropes which go from side wall to side wall and from gable to gable. Then spikes are driven into these walls and the ropes are tied on to them. This is done to keep them from being blown off by storms.
