School: Raskall
- Location:
- Raskill, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Áine Nic Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)make creels for carrying potatoes and cabbage, and baskets for teeming potatoes. He also made nice coloured hand baskets for the women to carry their eggs and butter to the markets.
This is the way he made the potato baskets first he used to get a thick supple rod and formed a circular rim called the foundation rod then he used to get finer rods and plat them in and out through each other the hand baskets are made the same way only they have a big thick handle and a lid on some of them. There is very few of them a making now-a-days.
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- Here is how they made starch they grated potatoes and put them in a flour bag and squeese the water out of them and let the water settle, then(continues on next page)
