School: Killea (roll number 3219)
- Location:
- Killea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Coilín
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- When farmers need ropes they make them themselves instead of buying the modern hemp rope. This is the way the farmers make ropes. One person gets a tra-hook and another gets an armful of coarse hay. The person who gets the tra-hook twists the hay into a rope and the other person spins the rope and prevents it from getting too thick or getting too thin. When the rope is made it is rolled in a clew.[Drawing]A tra-hook is made from a piece of bull wire about two feet long. First a hook about two inches wide is turned on one end of the wire. Then two pieces of stick (A&B) about one inch in diamater and six inches long are got and a hole about a quarter of an inch wide is bored with an augur down(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Rooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim