School: Mount Delvin
- Location:
- Mountdelvin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. K. O' Regan
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- Cleaves 12-5-'38
Cleaves were made of rods. The rods were sorted and thirty to strong ones picked out for Sairjans. Those were stuck into the ground in a lea field, three at each corner and three pairs of rods on each and two pairs at each end. The distance between each pair of sods was the width of the man's four fingers left flat on the ground.
In starting the cleeves two fairly strong rods were woven together in and out through the Sairjans and these formed what was called a buinian. Weak rods were then used till about twenty eyes were left. Another Buinian had to be put under and over the eyes. The bottom of the cleeve was made by knotting the Sapjans across and weaving weak rods through them.
- Collector
- Philomena B. O' Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountdelvin, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Mountdelvin, Co. Roscommon
