A024.01.00013

1988

Thatched houses, Clarinbridge.

A024.01.00023

Thatch, Moycullen.

A024.01.00024

Thatcher, Tuam.

A024.01.00025

Thatching, Carraroe.

A024.01.00026

Thatcher's needle, Addergool

A024.01.00027

1956

Thatching at Killeenaran, Ballindereen.

A024.01.00028

1956

Thatching at Killeenaran, Ballindereen.

A024.01.00031

1935

Roof ropes of thatch at Teernekilla, Mám.

A024.01.00063

1959

Roofs & Thatching: thatching. An example of a hipped roof and thatched (scollop thatch with ornamented rigging).

A024.01.00064

1959

Roofs & Thatching: Donkey’s carthouse, roofed with scraws; cart house. Caherlea. (William Kelly).

A024.01.00065

1959

Roofs & Thatching: small bobbins (boibíní) of wheaten straw used as ornamentation on inside of roof in dwelling house. Stone bench outside front door for holding vessels containing water - Killeenaran, Kilcolgan.

A024.01.00066

1959

Roofs & Thatching: construction of the hip-roof (half gable); rafters of hip-roofed house (ordinary gable).

A024.01.00073

1935

Stone gable, thatched roof, Cois Fharraige.

A024.01.00074

1932

Díon súgáin (straw rope thatch) near Corr na Móna.

A024.01.00075

1935

Forge

A024.01.00076

1959

Roofs & Thatching: Roof construction: (1) mortise (2) collar tie, cloch chúinne, cloch phréacháin.

A024.01.00077

1959

Roofs & Thatching: Roof construction: (5) branches, (6) scraws (long sods of earth with grass attached and rolled up. The grass side is turned outwards) (7) straw rope stitching, (8) heather.

A024.01.00078

1959

Roofs & Thatching: Roof construction: (9) thatching - first stráca, boibíní, (10) second stráca, bundle of scollops, lúbán, thatcher’s mallet for driving home lúbán, scollop: hazel rod approx. 3 ft long; 1/2” to 3/4” thick.

A024.01.00079

1959

Roofs & Thatching: Roof construction: twisting and bending lúbán. The same length of hazel stick is used for both scollop and lúbán: both are taken from the same bundle of prepared sticks. Point of lúbán cut bias to avoid having soft centre of stick coincide with sharp end. Scollop and lúbán in position for holding down thatch - lúbán is pushed in with hand and driven home with mallet till the long leg oes into the scraw, deep down. Scollops are stuck into roof along the edge of straca just finished to keep the straw in position and to mark the position of the lúbán hidden under the thatching. they are taken out one by one as the thatcher moves up towards the apex and used as the scollops for the fresh stráca as in x.