School: Ceathrú na Leac (roll number 12273)
- Location:
- Carrownaleck, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 126
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- Chursn, firkins, trincers, churn, dashes jogglers, noggins, wooden spoons, piggins were all made by Barney Ginty, Ballyglass, Cloonacool when my informant Margaret Cully, Carrowneagh, Tobercurry was a small girl. She is now 75 years of age. She often went with her brothers and sisters to his house for the finished vessels and "to see him making a firkin", she said " I used to be full sure I could make one myself. You'd think it was so easy to see him placing the staves and fastening the sally hoops around them. Barney was a grand old man with a white whisker to his knees and used to sing at his work "With a big turf fife and the floor swep' clane," There's no one as happy as you Paddy Kane, To the baby in the "Kadie" I could hear my dear one say, "Oh sittie down alana till I wet your Daddy's tay."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Mary Small
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carraun, Co. Sligo
