School: Killashandra (C.) Convent
- Location:
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. M. Cornillius
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- The Old people would gather strong rushes and bring home and peel all to one thin Strip Then they would dip them in resin that would be melted in a gresset. It is a nettle vessel in the shape of a basket. They used to get mostly sally rods or hazel rods They had a wooden frame with holes in it In those holes they would put the stronger rods standing and then work the finer ones in and out in the shape they wanted
- Collector
- Maura O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan