School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)

Location:
Doochorran, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bean Mhic an Ríogh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 094

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    into a round hoop. and four or five lubans is got and bent into the hoop in the shape you want to make the basket. Lubáns are thin pieces of sticks about the thickness of the hoop, thinned at each end and bent into the hoop in the shape you want to make the basket.
    Then there is fine rods got and worked in and out between these lubáns until it is all closed up.
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