School: Druim Míleadh (roll number 14898)
- Location:
- Drumeela, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ailbeard Mac an Ríogh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)One had also to provide well grown staw & clean. This had to be pulled & streaked & left in bunches or beds which are held tagether by a small thunel rope of rushed. The pulling & streaking is done by catching a handful of suitable straw in the right hand. With the left you caught the otehr an pulled & that separated the straw in two parts bringing the ends together to form a new bundle & streaking down all stray straws. this is carefully tied with the little rush rope & laid aside. The secret of good thatching lies very much in the care expended in the preparation as a thatcher however good he is, can make but a poor job of it if the staw is not strong & lengthy & is badly prepared.
When the thatcher arrived he brings the following tools.
1. A good long ladder reaching to the rigging
2. A sharp knife for dressing scollops
3. A rake for raking down the roof.
4. A thatching needle for the rigging.
5. Several coils of hairy Ned - hemp rope.
6. The Doppler or mallet for driving home the scollop
7. Buckets of water for wetting the straw.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Albert King
- Gender
- Male
