School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)

Location:
Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 193

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  1. First they get sallies growing in a ditch and cut them the proper length you want them. Then cross them and tie them together with a fine sally and start to weave them with fine sallies one by one till the basket is finished.
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  2. When people did not know what a collar was for a horse they used to make suggins for pulling loads and they made them out of a long straw rope 50 yds long and put it in over the horse's head and they had a haymes which was closed in the bottom with a rope of horse-hair and an iron clasp on the top that was never known to spoil a horse's breast.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosaleen Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Nicholas Duffy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Summerhill, Co. Meath