School: Ardvarney (roll number 15116)
- Location:
- Ardvarney, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Amhaltúin
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Creels are very useful articles which farmers use. They are something like big baskets. Creels are used in carrying potatoes or turf and they are also used in pairs on asses backs, on the top of an article called a straddle.
They are made from rods but every sort of rods will not suit to make creels. Sallies are the rods from which creels getting made and nearly every farmer has a little plantation of sallies for that use. Nearly every farmer makes creels for his own use on the farm and this is how they are made:-
About twenty strong sticks are pointed and stuck down in the ground_ these are called studs then there are lighter rods woven in through(continues on next page)
