1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Scartaglen

School: Scartaglen (roll number 8184)

Location:
Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
D. Ó Dubháin E. Ó Murchú
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0448, Page 124

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0448, Page 124

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Scartaglen
  2. XML Page 124
  3. 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

  1. Old Crafts

    Share Share Post
    Old Crafts
    Tallow
    A quantity of tallow is melted into a jug and poured into a mould. It is left rest and then drawn out by putting it over the fire and loosed it from the mould.
    Basket
    Get about twenty twigs and stick them on a scraw, and shape for a basket, and weave the twigs around the bow until it is a certain hight.
    Dyeing
    Long ago they used dye wool with bog and then they used make it into cloth. Dye is nowdays got in a shop.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Kerin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Free Kerin
    Gender
    Male