School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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- (continued from previous page)of his house that remains now is the four walls. People from other districts brought him thread to be woven into flannel.
- Long ago a man named Michael McGarry lived in my district, he was about seventy two years, he lived in Cloonmacduff, about a quarter of a mile from my home. His hobby all the time was basket making, he got a lot of rods, and twisted them in and out between each other.
He mad a certain kind of basket for which he had to boil the rods, he would sell them to the people around the place, he also made creels, and turf baskets.
He had a little place in the wood beside his house, where he used to make the baskets and creels. He is dead now. - There are not many places in the country were lime is burned(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardcotten, Co. Sligo