School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)
- Location:
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 431
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- (continued from previous page)wind from blowing the thatch off them.
These ropes are made from straw.
A man twists and another man feeds the straw onto the rope to make it longer.
Then it is rolled into a ball.
About the month of October the corn is threshed.
Some people have a mill of their own.
They cart a stack of corn into the barn.
Then they get two horses and yoke them to the arms of the lying shaft.
The lying shaft is under the ground.
The lying shaft goes into the Mill in the barn.
When the horses move the mill starts.
The horses walk round and round the mill ring.
When the horses stop the mill(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
