School: Sonna (roll number 1422)
- Location:
- Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Connell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 170
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- A bórán is made from goat skin. The skin has to be steeped in lime and water, and then the skins hair falls off.
It is left steeping for a long time and then hung out to dry. It gets hard and stiff and would not break or bend or crack. It is now nailed to a round piece of wood like the rim of a riddle for riddling sand. It is used for filling oats for horses, or bran or crushed oats for pig feeding.
We have one at home.
A cooper makes butter tubs, noggins and ferkins from wood. The noggin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Sonna Demesne, Co. Westmeath
- Collector
- Thomas O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
