School: Ballyneal (Kilmurry)
- Location:
- Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Manning Joseph
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- (continued from previous page)homes and when kept dry held its own for more than a century. One thing I've heard is that after forty years in use, it defeated the strength of two men to pull it asunder. They used it to make "bosses". A boss was a very comfortable fire-side seat and was made of rings of straw fastened together by a "sugán". It was also used to make a neat floor mat and also for clothes lines.
It was quite possible for two men to make a hundred yards of "súgan" in a half-hour. One man spun the hay and the other turned the "philibín".
