School: Cúl Seachtaine
- Location:
- Coolshaghtena, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Caitln Nic Dhonnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0258, Page 261
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- Old CraftsBasket Making.
About one hundred years ago there lived in Weekfield a man named Mick Tracey. He was the only skilled man in making cleeves, creels and baskets.
This is the way in which he made them. He had special rods called black sallies which usually grew in the bog. He used these in rough work such as cleeve making.
Then there were others sallies called white sallies which he used in fancy work. He steamed these by boiling them in hot water and afterwards peeling them.
Then he made shopping baskets and clothes baskets from them. He made his living by selling those in Roscommon.
This is how he made a cleeve. He got a bundle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Gill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolshaghtena, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Gill
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Coolshaghtena, Co. Roscommon
