School: Arklow Convent
- Location:
- Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Sr. Brendan
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- Collector
- Helen Hurley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolmore, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr L. Lot
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolmore, Co. Wicklow
- Old crafts are not the same as this days crafts. Hand-weaving and brush making were the crafts of long ago. Brushes were made from bent. Bent is kind of fern which grows on the beach or sand banks.
- Wild Geese are a sure sign of bad weather and when the wild Geese are feeding, one of the Geese has to stand keeping watch and when this goose sees anyone coming, he roars(continues on next page)