School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh
- Location:
- Ballylosky, Co. Donegal
- Teachers: An tSr. A. Nic Fhionnlaoich An tSr. M. Beinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 98
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in the village of Gort near Carndonagh, County Donegal, there lived an old man named Con Doherty who made his livelihood by making baskets and it was only the finest baskets he made.
He cut the fine sally rods, put them in to a pot, boiled them, then peeled them and fashioned them into butter-baskets, work-baskets,egg-baskets, etc.
The old woman used to make their own blankets. The sheep were clipped or shorn, the wool washed as clean as possible, afterwards cured, spun and made into yarn, after that it was sent to the weaver and made into cloth, then it was taken home, washed, shaped and sown into blankets.
- Collector
- Maude Canny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Canny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
