School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)to shoe horses.
- Rope-makingRope-making was carried on in every house in this Parish of Desertegney for their own use rope being made from horse hair and the ropes being twisted by twisters.
- The women spun the yarn out of flax and the men knitted herring nets with it and they took the bark of an oak tree and tanned their nets - dyeing it was called. Some of them fished in a small scale in a curragh, but the carriage or body of the bow was built like creel work now and covered with torn canvas.
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- Collector
- Sadie Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glebe, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neil Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Glebe, Co. Donegal
