School: Killashandra
- Location:
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Leannáin
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- James Connolly Kinkeel makes mats out of straw.Phil Curran Killeshandra is a creel maker. He sticks the rods in the ground and then he entangles the ones in the ground and soon he has the creel made.The bark of an oak tree was the old material used dyeing clothes.Ivy is used for taking stains out of clothes. It is boiled and the juice of it is put on the clothes.
- There is a man in Cranaghan named Mr. Gearty who burns lime. He sells most of it.Mr Curran makes bordels. They are put on donkeys' backs.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tom Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan