School: Lúbán Díge (Bodyke)
- Location:
- Bodyke, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 347
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- (continued from previous page)Each farmer grew a number of Osier trees for the purpose of having scallops and also for the taking of baskets (Cliabh agus Sciath)
Cleabhsluer made by the men who had learned the trade. They could be carried on the back or place on the back of an ass to draw out turf from the bogs when the place would be too soft or boggy for horses.
Sciath was a small hand basket with two handles used round the house for bringing in turf or potatoes or for straining potatoes.
If carefully minded, they would last years.
Men in this parish I knew who made baskets or sciaths:
Mick Tuohey, Dromad., dead (his son, Peter can do so now and also thatch)
Michael Walsh, Caherhurley, dead 1935
Michael Minague, Caherhurley, dead
Michael Wiely, Clonmoher, still makes these
Mat Gradey, Caherhurley, died in 1930
Frances McGuiness, Clonmoher.Mat Grady used come to our house when we were young and dig the potatoes in the day and makes sciazs at night beside the kitchen fire.
We used be all around him, chatting him, and the night passed quickly.
We grew the osiers in the pound paire a field which at one time was used as grazing field for cattle, etc. caught on the roads wondering, by the police. We had a barrack in our village.
