School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)still. But the ropes for their houses were made from thin "spiles" of bog fir twisted together and also from horse-hair twisted with a home made twister.
- Creels and potato-baskets are still made here from fine sally-rods boiled in a large pot, skinned and woven together. Dan McAliney, Hillside and James Bradley, Glebe, Desertegney make baskets for anyone that gives them an order.
- Informant
- Mary Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Dunree, Co. Donegal
- Paddy Doherty, who lived in Milltown over 60 years ago made spades, graips and implements for the farmers.
- The black-smiths in Desertgney, who were Willy Smith from Nailer's Row, Neil McLaughlin from Glebe, John O'Donnell from Park Avenue and George Doherty from Keelogs, made their own nails(continues on next page)
