School: Radharc na Féile (roll number 14156)
- Location:
- Abbeyfeale West, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0495, Page 101
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- (continued from previous page)are out and they both belong to the willow family.
A basket is often called a cliabh and it is a very convenient article in which to give cabbage to cows and very recently it was in cliabhs potatoes were brought from the garden. Sgees are easily made but cliabhs are hard to be made. This craft is generally practised in Winter the farmer or maker is not too busy.
On taking a ramble to (Af) Abbeyfeale I was amazed to see a car load of sgees and cliabhs. The (sellar) seller was "Young Jim" from Sugar Hill and it was kind of him to be slow making a bargain. Seven shillings was the price of a cliabh and half a crown for a sgee. A big fat man walked up and asked how (much) much for a cliabh. Ten shillings was the reply but the fat old man would not hear of it. He offered half of it and a farmer said to cut the five shillings and they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilkinlea Lower, Co. Limerick
