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   fire. Then sheet it with turf, then stones on every second lare [layer] until[l] filled.
   Maura Meehan,
   Clonave, Coole, Co. Westmeath.
   Told to me by:
   Dan Smyth,
   Clonave, Coole, Co. Westmeath.

   

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2. Essay on Old Crafts

   

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   Long ago people made nearly all their own wood work and clothing. 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

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brugh Meehan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coole, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Pat Cox

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coole, Co. Westmeath