School: Lakyle, Whitegate
- Location:
- Lakyle, Co. Clare
- Teacher: John Davis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588, Page 181
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- that it overlaps the first bundle, and fastens it as before. Some thatchers put a straight piece of scallop across the bundle then fasten each end and by two other scallops driven down with the wooden mallet.
He then begins at the bottom & works up to the top of the roof & so on.A' & A two bent scallops
fastening end of straight scallop.
When the roof is covered the thatcher has a comb & he combs all the loose straws.
Then with a thatcher's knife he cuts the nave of the house straight.
Foregoing got from James Lyons, Whitegate
