School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Droim Saileach (Merritt), Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)They used to dye the cloth with rhyme, got from rhyme branches and boiled. This gave a grand dye to flannel.
Thatching
When a new house was buil for thatch the farmer went to the bog and cut boggy scraws the length of roof. They were then dried an let hand down the roof, supported by nibberies[?] nine inshes from each other. This was done to hold scolip and the to keep the house warm. The house was thatched with either sea reed, rushes or heath.
Wheels
The first wheels made in this district were timber wheels. They had no spokes and had timber axils.
- Collector
- May Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Achadh Roighneach Beag, Co. an Chláir
