School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)
- Location:
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)they sold in districts near them for a few shillings. There is a man in Killure named Hugh McLoughlin who made a large number of baskets at that time. Hugh got help from a man Michael Donnellan who was also able to make baskets. They got the rods to make the baskets in a field which is occupied by a man named William Dillon. First they spent a week cutting the rods and then they made the baskets. They made different kinds of baskets. They sold the baskets in Killure for 1/6 each.
- About seventy years ago the people of this district make their own soap.(continues on next page)