School: Lúbán Díge (Bodyke)
- Location:
- Bodyke, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 349
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- (continued from previous page)I think it would be easy now to make a lamp of this kind with the up to date corks or fasteners in lemonade or porter bottles which is a piece of tin serrated to catch the top and not to fall off.
- Frames were made of white deal and brought to the fair of Scariff and bought by the purchaser. Then from hay was made a ball of sugan. I often twisted it and liked the job. This was put on the seat of chair by winding it around and then across - it was an art in itself to do it nicely.
Every farmers house - in the kitchen are these chairs and they are most comfortable and soft. Now sometimes they use rope (rough & thick) instead of the sugan. I have seen arm or elbow chairs covered with sugan for the old man or the old woman and placed in the corner in the most cozy spot. - I saw whips made of rushes when I was young. The scholars told me they knew how to make them.
