School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 044
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- (continued from previous page)about five inches in diameter. This beam was called "Maide Eamoin." It was very hard for any enemy to open that door unless it would (be) was broken. There was a basket-maker int his district, and this is how he earned a living. He made different kinds of basketts for all the people of Wat Rouse of Fiddaun has still this old method for bolting his doors. There was a basket makers a basket maker in our district and he made has 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 [illegible] a soft bogs. These baskets were hung on a straddle made by the people themselves out of a critch of timber and straw on each side of the sod. Long ago people used them for bringing their goods to the market.
- Collector
- Bartly Queenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Edward Battle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
