School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)down and be there at party meetings and be there back in Fairland, or wherever he was working, in the morning to his work, He was a ribbon-man. He used an iron fork with prongs about the length of the two first fingers. He had "a bow" for holding the straw. It was a board with a rod from end to end and two pieces of iron out of the board to hold it to the thatch. He'd make a "wangle" of straw like this. He'd get a fistful of straw. He'd pull these till he'd have them like a mane, nice and smooth. He'd then pull out a few straws from the rest, a little way and these he'd fasten into the thatch of the house, and then he'd smooth out the rest of the straws down along the house-roof. He had a rake too, made out of one long stick with nails driven into it. With this he raked down the loose straws.
Cearr-a grin.
- Collector
- Mary B. Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monktown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farm-labourer
- Address
- Follistown, Co. Meath
