School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)
- Location:
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Neill
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- (continued from previous page)these and sell them in his own house he did this in the year 1825.
They cut the sallies dried them and made tables also. Thatching was also another industry the people had long ago in Ireland; they would draw rushes from the bogs and then tie them in bundles; then they got John Keegan to thatch the house; he would get clay and wet it, then he would put it on the eave of the house on top of the house on the rushes then put a row of rushes on top of that again and so on till he had it done, this was done in the year 1825. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Bridie Sharkey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Edward Sharkey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Edmondstown, Co. Louth