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School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)

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Leggagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Francis Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 499

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    When a man is going to make a creel he goes and gets a good quantity of rods in some garden, and brings them home to some of his houses and sorts them and takes the strong rods and leaves them on one side, and the light ones on the other side. He leaves them to season for a week or two. Then he selects twenty eight of the strong rods and points them, and sticks them in the ground, two inches apart, eight on each side, and six on each end. Then he starts the "crow-lath", which is the rim around the mouth of the creel. When he has the crow-lath on, it is easy, as he has only to weave the light rods through the uprights.
    When the creel is high enough he bends the uprights
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Address
    Leggagh, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Thomas Sheridan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Leggagh, Co. Longford