School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 009
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)together.Thatching:
The best thatchers were:- Jim "Matt" Daly of Nohival, Tade Shine of Gloungriskeen, Jerry Kelleher and Paddy Connor. The latter was thatching from Kanturk to Killarney at one time. The names of the articles used for thatching are: A thatching knife, a bittle, and a hand-leather. The spars were got from : briars, bog-deal, fir and ash. The best wheel-wright was Michael Kelleher of Knocknagree. He made a pair of wheels which lasted for 40 years.Re-digging;
There used be garden in the field the year before. They opened out the ridge along the cut and threw in a sgiolán and then pounded it down with a spade. They opened the second cut and put in a sgiolán and pounded it. They opened the third cut and did the same and pounded it over again. Sixty spades of re-digging was supposed to be a good day's work(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donnchadha Ó Buachalla
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Dáithí Ó Mhurchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
