School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0310, Page 187
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- The Thatching Needle was made from an iron bar about half-an-inch thick. It measures about thirty-six inches. In the upper end is a ring in which the handle fitted.The needle was used to sew thatch with a súgán or with a hempen rope
- Sketch of a castróir, an awl-like instrument with two stout spikes, which was used to "ring" pigs.These rings were made by the smith and were shaped like this:-When the ring was inserted the castóir was used to turn up the straight end.
- Informant
- Mr William Shorten
- Gender
- Male
