School: Meelick (roll number 14592)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Conchobhair
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- The crafts practiced locally in olden times were numerous but now they are rapidly disappearing. They were the principal means of livelihood of many people who had small holdings and in some cases no land. The chief crafts practiced were the making of cleeves and baskets and different kinds of wooden vessels and the weaving of clothes, mats and "súgán chairs". Candles were also made. Each landowner grew sallies on damp waste ground which supplied the cleeve maker with the necessary materials for his craft. The craft was carried on out in open air in autumn and winter in favourable weather. In wet or snowy weather cleeves and baskets were made indoors. A green sod of the required size was dug and brought in to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmullin, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmullin, Co. Roscommon