School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)his living by making baskets and creels. His name was Mr Pat Hannon of Muingware. When they would have a crowd of men working they would lift a basket of potatoes, and leave them on the table. He also made baskets called creels for putting out turf out of soft bogs. Those baskets were hung on a straddle made by the people themselves out of a critch of timber and straw, on each side of the ass. Long ago people used them for bringing their goods to the market.
- Long ago the people had no bolts in their doors. There was a hole in the wall each side. There was a big beam of timber going across(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bartly Queenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Edward Battle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo