Posts tagged Thatch
Thatching a House

He places the mallet between two rungs of the ladder above him. Now he is ready to begin to put on the first streak of thatch...

INFORMANT: Edward Bourke, Age 55, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo

 

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Old Crafts

The people then brought it to a little kiln on their farms and dried it there. It was then beatled with a beatle (a beatle resembled a cricket bat I am informed). It was then scutched with a scutcher ( a scutcher is also made of timber but is much lighter than the beatle, it is almost as thin as a knife).

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