School: Coole (roll number 3936)
- Location:
- Coole, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cormaic
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Basket making was carried out on in this district long ago. For fancy baskets the rods were boiled. After that the[y] were peeled. It used to take one hundred and thirty rods to make any size of a basket. Stick into the ground twenty one strong rods called standards. Out of your bundle of rods pick twenty one more for the 'crulath'. The rods are then woven and plated [plaited] together and put for the shape of your basket. You continue to pick out a number of twenty one rods and continue to do in like manner until the basket is made.
There is an old limecill [kiln?] in my fathers(continues on next page)
