School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)During the Winter months he used to gather alot of sally switches and leave them in water for a couples of months. Then he bend the switches and plat them to make the baskets.
James Sullivan Rathculbin thatches most of the houses around this locality. Scallops and straw are prepared and the straw is made into nice bundles. He fastens the straw on with the scallops very tightly.
There was a man named Matthew Phelan of Goodwinsgarden once living whose house is now occupied by Mr Brownrigg.
The former used to supply the people with ferkins and tubs. The ferkins were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr Edward Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
