School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 355
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown)
- XML Page 355
- XML “Old Crafts”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Whip making.
Long long ago there lived in the district, a man named Gaffney - a whip maker.
He got a long cloth and cut it into very thin strips and then he got some very strong linen thread, he twisted them together very hard and tied them.
He then got an ash "plant" and pared it, he tied the two together with wax end and painted the stick.
He sold a lot of whips.
A man named White lived here too, he made soap. He used butter that was gone bad? and he put berries? through the melted fat. He put it on a slow fire. He had a square dish to put soap in, many people bought it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
