School: Behymore
- Location:
- An Bheithigh Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)half feet in height. Then the sides of the creel would be made.
Then he would take away the scraw. At the bottom of the scraw there would be about a foot left in each of the twelve rods. He would bend them rods and weave the rods in and out through the big ones until the bottom would be made. He would get a knife then and cut the spikes that would be sticking up in the creel, top rims of the creel. He would weave small rods in and out in the top rims so that a person would be able to catch a grip in the creel. Then he would plait some more rods to make a hanger for the creel.
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- Collector
- Ned Rafter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Thuathaláin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
