School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 377
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- (continued from previous page)means of tying thatched cabins or hay but by sugans, and besides they were cheaper.
There are four different kinds of sugans, namely bogdeal, straw, luachairmhadra hay, and rushes.
The material for bogdeal sugan was got off bogdeal stick by stripping slices off abut the strength of a straw.
This was twisted in the same way as the straw and other sugans, that is, the man letting the sugans sat in a chair with the pile of bogdeal at his left hand side.
Another member of the family usually a youngster held a twisting bow, an long rod bent at the top something like this.[Drawing] - Twisting bowThe man letting the sugan first of all held about five or six strips by the ends in both hands.
He put these down at the point over the twisting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Malone
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Malone
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
