School: Garrdha (roll number 12721)
- Location:
- Garra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó hAnnracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0057
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- (continued from previous page)also buy hazel switches in the market and cut them for the thatch. John Murrough used to make "bobs" for the top of the house or as they used to call it the "comb." He used to start at 9 o'clock in the morning in winter and finish at 9 o'clock in the evening. He used to be about (fo) six days thatching a house. He used to put on four "straikes" in the day each "straik" about 1 1/2 feet wide He is about 75 years of age now and has given up thatching about eight years.
Seancheirdeanna
“Martin Corcoran, an old man had a huge lime kiln in a small distance in a field near Martin Dolan's forge beside a river about the size of the Abbert River known as the Canal.”
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