School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)
- Location:
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Kathleen Grehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 103
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- (continued from previous page)them. They made bottom someway on their knees and then they added the sides. They turned out white and green baskets.
- Tom Whelan - Friarstown Dalystown was a rope maker. He made them from some sort of wood - perhaps sally or bog dale. He made something like shavings of the wood and twisted them into robes. They used to make the frames of beds from these ropes - the irons and wire mattresses as we have now. This is 100 ago. This man is about 40 years dead.
"There was a rope-maker
Who married his daughter to a soap-maker
The fortune he gave her was 20 ropes
There was 20 knots on every rope
And 20 purses on every knot(continues on next page) - Informant
- Joseph Creevy
- Gender
- Male
