School: Moyvore
- Location:
- Moyvore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 416
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- (continued from previous page)taken can still be seen in the "Planting". Basket-making was another craft that was carried on in years gone by. It is still carried to a small extent in the locality. Sally rods were used for the making of them. The baskets were used principally for turfs and potatoes. Sometimes they were used as clothes baskets that is for holding ironed clothes.Chairs with straw seats was another old craft. It has entirely died out in this locality. Mats too, which were used beside bedsteads and at doors were made from this straw. They are still made in this locality.People used to cut rushes and peel the skin off them. Then they used to fry them in fat. The fat used to soak into the rushes and then they would stiffen. They had a special kind of stand for these candles.In the forge at Moyvore the blacksmith made croppy pikes for the men of the '98 Rebellion.
- Collector
- Michael Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballincurra, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Michael Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Rathcogue, Co. Westmeath
