School: Cormeen (roll number 6821)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Anna Leary
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- XML “Basket-Making”
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- Long ago there were no slated houses as there are to - day. There were only thatched houses. In order to thatch the houses they lashed the wheat straw and put it in sheaves and then they got a thatcher and he sewed the wheat straw on the house with an iron needle. It was threaded with a rope and he put it through the roof of the house and round the straw and tied the inside round the rafters in order to keep the straw on. When the thatcher got a firm hold he put it on with a stapler. There are still a number of thatched houses in this district.
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- Collector
- Bertha Wright
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheetrim, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr S. Armstrong
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan