School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0571, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)handles were shown at opposite end.
The "cover" was held on by a brass chain and was usually the old cover of a cruet or of a pepper-caster. Sometimes shop sold covers made of tin were used.
My grandfather had one of these pipes and the skull he used instead of the skull of clay pipe was a piece of old gun barrell cut to suitable length.
Diagram
Rough drawing of pipe described above as made like bellows.
Bellows was in exact proportion. Even clapper hole was shown underneath.
The man who used to make those pipes used also make SCIACHs and straw hives.
His name was Pad Dwyer and he died only about 10 years ago. I can't saw was the art of making of those pipes handed down or was it his own invention. He was very "handy".
Note: Local name for Spindle tree = "peg-wood"
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
