School: Corlea
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 100
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- In olden times there was no such a thing as buying soap. Everyone had to make their own soap. They would get a tin pot and half fill it with water. Then they would break up egg shells, decayed butter oatmeal and thick milk and boil all until it became a sort of thick. Then take of the pot and the next day cut it out in squares.
- The way baskets are made is to cut sally rods and steep them in a flax dam for nine days. They are taken in and peeled and twisted into baskets.
- Collector
- Brigid Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Finegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- There are straw ropes and hay ropes. The straw or hay has to be dry and seasoned. Some people twist the ropes with a reaping hook others with a(continues on next page)
