School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 342
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- Told by Mrs Hunt Jamestown
About her birthplace, Doon Boyle.
She rememberes, as a child, seeing Paddy Regan of Doon going across Loch Key on a float, made by himself, out of bulrushes - a wooden frame - with bulrushes woven on it. And she often saw him come back in the evening, his float loaded with bulrushes and osiers that he got on the Rockingham side at Cloonthakilla.
He built the reeds up around himself on the float, and paddled back to Doon Luay. She saw just the top of his head showing. Then during the winter, he was busy, weaving baskets, sugán chairs(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
