School: Claonar agus Carraig, Cill an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Killavullen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Síothcháin
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- Basket Making.About forty years ago basket making was the usual work of the day in Annakisha Doneraile. People used cut sally twigs from a ditch nearly where they were very plentiful. The twigs used be about two feet and a half long and about half an inch thick.
Each of the twigs was stuck in the ground It would take about forty twigs to make a right good basket.
- Informant
- Denis O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Annakisha, Co. Cork
- Rope-Making.Long ago many people around this district made ropes out of cords. First three cords are got and these are platted. Next a piece of wire about a foot long is secured and bent like this } . The bent end of the wire is put into about six platted cords and these are well twisted with the wire twister. While twisting a good pull must be kept on the rope until the two ends are tied so that the rope cannot unravel.
Told by:-Robert Deane, 35 yrs.
Annakisha,
Doneraile.
