School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 040
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- (continued from previous page)The first coat of thatch put on a house requires to be sewn. Two men is needed to sew thatch on a house, one inside and the other outside on the roof. The man on the roof ties a hay rope out of the rafter in the corner. Then he puts some thatch under the rope and drives the latter down with a long pointed iron called a thatching needle.
The man inside puts it round a rafter while he is doing this the man on the roof changes the needle, the man inside puts the rope into the eye of the needle and the other man gets it back again. They continue on like that till they are finished.
- Collector
- Eugene Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
