School: Castlepollard (B.) (roll number 5513)
- Location:
- Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: William Coghlan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0720, Page 146
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There are a few good thatchers around the town yet nmaed Neddie Tierney from Green St. and Garret Gibbons from Packenham Hall St.
A thatcher uses a small bar with two prongs on the top for pushing the straw into the roof. It is called a stapler or a thatching fork. A thatcher usually starts on the right-hand at the ridge. When he has the house finished he sticks a lot of sally rods in to keep the thatch down, these sticks are called scollops. Then he rakes down the loose......... with a small rake. Then he cuts the eave of the house in a straight line so that the water would run down off the roof to the ground.Collected by Raymond Farrell, Water St.
- Collector
- Raymond Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
