School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 052
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- (continued from previous page)prongs. The handle is made of wood and the prongs are made of iron.
With the aid of this fork the thatcher puts the fangles into the roof and then he gets some thin switches and puts them over the thatch to keep it from blowing away.
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- Collector
- Cassie Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs P. Lawlor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow