School: Breacaire Beag (roll number 14891)
- Location:
- Brackary Beg, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Brádaigh
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- Long ago, Barrels and churns were made as well as butts and firkins for holding butter. This is how the people made them. Firstly, they bought the timber. Then it was split into staves. They were put into the tresshoops, and shaped for a butt. Then the tresshoops were taken off and the other hoops were put on. The tresshoops were thick heavy hoops. There was a lot of tools used namely, the cleaver, the hollowed knife, the draw-knife, the spoke-shave, the adz, and the board-axe.
- Collector
- Patrick Gilmartin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullanyduff, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick Gilmartin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullanyduff, Co. Leitrim