School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)Then they had to stick the rush into the pot of "grease." When they took it out they had to let it cool. Then they put it in again and so on till it was the right shape.
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- Collector
- Dolly Buchanan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sockar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr L. Buchanan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Sockar, Co. Donegal
- In olden times it was nearly all thatched houses they had about here.The way they thatched their houses was with straw, some with rushes and others flax.The rushes were all cut and laid out to dry. Then they put them on the roof, and and then they put rods on the top of the rushes to hold them down.
This work is still going on.
