School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)He places the bundle of straw on the roof at his left hand side and drives a scallop or two under it in the thatch to keep it from falling down.
He places the mallet between two rungs of the ladder above him. Now he is ready to begin to put on the first streak of thatch. He loosens the bundle of straw takes about four handfuls and leaves it across at the eave of the house from the gable to the ladder, he then takes a scollap and sticks one end of it down by the gable the point of it dircetex up ward. The other part of the scollap he brings(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick James Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Eadward Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo