School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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“There used to be travellers going round the counry an' they'd have Butts of ash on their shoulders an, they'd stop in the farmers' houses...”
There used to be travellers going round the country an' they'd have Butts of ash on their shoulders an, they'd stop in the farmers houses makin' riddles, sieves you know, an' baskets there was no machinery then an' the corn was all threshed with a flail.
I often saw them here makin' the riddles, they'd take a sliver off the ash as thin as a whip then they'd put wan end in their mouths between their teeth an' hold the other end in their hands an' cut it down the middle, then they'd weave the pieces of ash beginnin' at the centre an' workin' out before 'em.
There was three kinds of riddles, the barn riddle, a great big riddle, the wheaten riddle an the oaten riddle.
- Collector
- Josie Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- James L. Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford