Scoil: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Old Trades - Leather-Making (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   It was not down long enough unless the hair came off through the action of the lime. If oak bark was then buried again with the skin it became too hard for kicking with the bare feet in the opinion of Pat Lyne. He tells me that when he was a boy the only dressing the skin got was the original coating of lime. When the hair was removed the skin was stretched on a door to dry after which it was sown into shape with leather thongs.

   The tube (?) was a cow's bladder. A football tube is still called a bladder by many people about here.

   In Glenflesk the skin of the dog was pulled over a small put from which the legs were filed off.

   On one occasion the members of the football team met at Killaha in the parish of Glenflesk. They had a dog-skin but no pot. They knew that a small pot which would suit was outside the back door of my grand-aunt's house but all the men

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Múinteoir (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)