School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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- A man named Tim Driscoll who was a great thatcher lived in Letter about 80 years ago. He had a good deal of fittings for the thatching. This man went around for hire. Sometimes he carried a man around with him to help him. He commenced thatching at the right hand side of the house. He tied a rope to each thaovan. He began the thatching at the bottom. He made the bottom of the straw even. As soon as he reached the rope he tied a piece of cord to it that was put in a timber needle. He drove the needle in through the thatch and the person inside drove it out at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gurteenroe, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Tim Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Letter, Co. Cork