School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)portions with twelve or fourteen fairly strong uprights. He now plats a great number of light briars or osiers through the upright taking care to keep them very close together as shown in sketch. The putting in of the bottom is not hard. Six or eight strong stiff rods are got stretched across one end their ends being twisted round the strong circular rod at the end and fastened firmly to it; across these stronger sticks are plaited a number of light ones which was done in the case of the sides; the ends of these lighter are allowed to run up into the sides of the basket also. The handles made of light twisted briars or osiers are now put in one opposite the other. They are made fast to the strong circular stick at the top.
A thing worth noting is this that the basket-maker nearly ever uses cord or wire or nails; all his fastenings are made with pliable rods and he makes these rods pliable- so pliable that he can actually knot them by heating them well(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mai Mullally
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Maud Treacy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Martin Sheedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oldcastle, Co. Tipperary