School: Árd-achadh (roll number 17098)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Ó Coinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)O'Horas, one of Foys and one of Flynns. In the time of out ancestors it was a family of Flynns that owned all the land from the parish of Backs down to the Ballysokerry Bridge. Clarke is the next most common name in the townland. All the houses in the townland are thatched with the exception of two. This is how the thatch is prepared. Whatever kind of straw is used in thatching the grain is threshed off it with a flail. The flail is made of two pieces of sticks, a little thicker than the handle of a twig. One of the sticks is called a handstaff or "cupran", and the other "boulsteain". The "culpan", and "boulsteain" are tied together with a piece of bag called a pucán. When the straw is threshed it is made into "bobbins". Whoever is "drawing" the straw takes every handful of straw and put a kind of knot on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Úna Ní Fhloinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymanagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Anthony Flynn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballymanagh, Co. Mayo
