School: Baile na Cille (roll number 7454)
- Location:
- Ballynakilla, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Loingaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 049
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- In olden times there were a lot of different kinds of trades and and occupations. Allmost every-one was able to make every thing he wanted, and the most common of these trades now is basket-making. There are two kinds of baskets ciseáns and clítheógs. The ciseans are used mostly for drawing turf, and the clítheógs are used mostly for drawing manure or seaweeds. For basket-making first of all the rods are cut and put seasoning in a river or a stream and this is to be done in the dark moon in November. The next thing they do is that they stand about a dozen strong rods in a circle which are called standers, and then the weaker rods are weaved in and out through them until it becomes wavey in the outside and each wave is called a buinne.
There was a mould kept in every house and the people used melt tallow and they used put a cord into the mould with a nail at each end to keep it straight in the middle. Then they used pour in the melted tallow and leave it get hard, and then they used take off the nails and leave the candle fall out.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret P. Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrycreeveen, Co. Cork
