School: Corraslira
- Location:
- Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 078
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: Corraslira
- XML Page 078
- XML “Thatching”
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
- (continued from previous page)knife for making the thatch and the eave even when it is finished. He uses a mallot for striking the scallops down. In olden times the people use to thatch with rushes and reeds. Every house should (When the) be thatched at least once a year. If not, there will be rain down in the house. The thatcher palaces a wire that stretches from one end of house to the other along the eave of the thatch to keep it even when he is thatching. Every house should be thatched at least once a year. Long ago when the old people used to ceildh with each other if one saw "rain down" in the others house he would say "Faith you have a few police men after the night".
- Collector
- Mary Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumman, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr John Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corgarrow, Co. Roscommon
