School: Kilskeer (C.) (roll number 1563)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 447
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- (continued from previous page)with eel-skin. The short stick hits the grain and knocks the shells off it. This was a very slow method of getting on.
- My mother Mrs McGrane told me these crafts.
Fishing
Long ago people had a different way for fishing than we have now. They would have a piece of a stick, about six feet long. They would stick a piece of steel into the top of the stick and have a crook on it, they would stick the crook in the fish in the water and lift him up on the crook.
Whip making
There was a man living in Crosakiel named Mick the Hatter. He used to make hats and whips. (They) The way he would make the whips, he would get a piece of (leather) of a sally rod and tack on a piece of leather or tie it with an eel-skin and plait some flax cords to make a lash. He used to make sun-hats with straw and rushes and go to fairs and sell them there.
Basket-making(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rose Darby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Martinstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Darby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Martinstown, Co. Meath
