School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)
- Location:
- Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
- Teachers: M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 439
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- Basket making was carried out in Kells up to 30 years ago. People of the name of White lived where the Post Office now is in Farrell Street. They made a great number of baskets. Some of the baskets were hampers used them for apples and other fruits. Another kind of baskets was of an oblong shape with a curved handle on the top.
This kind had lids and they were used for bringing butter and eggs to the market and to carry home groceries. There were about a foot and a half long and a foot wide.
The baskets were made of sally rods got from a place called The Bottoms at the back of the Christian Brother Schools. The rods were first boiled to soften them and easy to bend and twist.
A man named Tormey a relalive of Whites lives now in Kells at the Railway and he mends baskets and makes baskets occasionally.
- Collector
- Josephine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Tormay
- Age
- 67
- Occupation
- Basket-maker
- Address
- Railway Street, Co. Meath
