School: Dearg Dún (roll number 10894)
- Location:
- Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)no rushes. Then he gets two long rods, about a foot and a half in height, and two short ones about one foot high, these he places in a rectangular shape on the ground, standing perpendicular and with one end stuck in the earth. Around these four, he forms the creel, by first placing a number of rods perpendicularly at distances of four inches apart, between the former four, and the weaving long fine rods around those perpendiculars.Creels are usually about a foot and a half in height and the same in width. They are hung on to the ass's straddle by means of a loop which is made of rope and attached to the side of the creel, this is called a "hanger".
- Collector
- Fred Forbes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Pat Mooney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Dergvone, Co. Leitrim