School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 163
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- Old CraftsCoffin making
A few years ago and perhaps ten of fifteen, coffins were made in our village by Dominick Sharkey and Patrick Callaghan. They used shape and nail it first, then they used cover them outside with black cloth and inside with white. In some cases only a bit of hay was put in it for a pillow. lastly they used buy the breastplates and nail them on.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Séarcaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Habit-making
Mrs Callaghan used make the habits for all the neighbors in Cloonfad. She used make them from brown cloth and on the breast she used sew the letters I. H. S in white muslin. - Basket-making
About thirty or forty years ago Dominick Sharkey used make the square baskets with the lid. He used get fresh rods and boil them until they could be bent backwards or forwards without cracking. These rods he used to weave through stronger ones and in such a way baskets were made for everyone in the locality.
