School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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- (continued from previous page)own baskets, and cleeves out of rods. They made a basket called a sgibh which was used for straining potatoes, They left it on a pot in the middle of the floor, and then they would eat a round it. They used to make other basket in which they gathered turf in. They are called deep basket
- The people made their own ropes out of rushes. They would pull rushes and beetle them with a beetle until the white would come out of them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán M. Ó hOistín
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Ted Hastings
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo