School: Marshalstown (roll number 12741)
- Location:
- Marshalstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Macháin
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- (continued from previous page)97whips are made still.Nancy Murphy
- Basket Making
The way to make baskets is to get a bundle of long thin sally sticks. Then they used to sharpen the ends of the sticks and bend them in the shape of a ring for the top of the basket and a smaller one for the bottom and they would put sticks going from top to bottom and make a lot of rings to go around in and out through them.Nancy Murphy - 97Thatching
Thatching was a very common trade in this district long ago. When people were preparing to thatch they would shake out a certain amount of straw upon the ground and wet it with water. Then they would leave(continues on next page)