Scoil: Mercy Convent, Rathangan

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1. Old Crafts - An Old Hatter

   

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   A few evenings ago, I met Mrs. Margaret Heavy, The Woodlands, Rathangan, on her way home from town. I asked her to tell me a story, so she consented to tell me about her grandmother. Mrs. Esther Barrot, who was a hatter. She said that she used make a living in the Harvest-time by making straw hats and baskets for the farmers.
   She got bundles of wheaten and oaten straw from a farmer named Mr. peter Flood, Kilthahawn. "I remember well", said Mrs. Heavy, "when I was a little girl, my grandmother used send me over to Mr. Flood's for the straw". Mrs Barrot cut the straw in about eight inch bundles. These bundles she put into a barrel with a heavy stone and brimstone over them in order to rot them. Then she took them out, dried them, and platted them in the shape of a hat. She did likewise with the baskets, and when she

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary K. Burke

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   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Margaret Heavy

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   c. 76

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   Ráth Iomgháin, Co. Chill Dara