School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- (continued from previous page)called a caísín, and others were without and were not called a basket but a "sgib".
The potatoes baskets and sgibs are still used in the district.
3. Spades.
Twenty or thirty years ago there were no ploughs in the district and every man dug his own land with a blacksmiths laige.
4. Ropes.
First they thresh the rushes and then left them to season and after twisted them into ropes.
5. Dye.
The people used to make brown dye by boiling moss, and purple by boiling the flowers of the heather in Summer.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nancy Mc Nicholas
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntleva, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Portagh, Co. Mayo