School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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- First they get sallies growing in a ditch and cut them the proper length you want them. Then cross them and tie them together with a fine sally and start to weave them with fine sallies one by one till the basket is finished.
- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Nicholas Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
- When people did not know what a collar was for a horse they used to make suggins for pulling loads and they made them out of a long straw rope 50 yds long and put it in over the horse's head and they had a haymes which was closed in the bottom with a rope of horse-hair and an iron clasp on the top that was never known to spoil a horse's breast.
- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Nicholas Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath