The rafters were put up on each side of the house 3 feet apart
Read MoreWe have a thatched house at home. The rafters are put up first and they are joined together at the top. INFORMANT: James McIntyre, Age 60, Address, Knocksaxon, Co. Mayo
Read MoreHe 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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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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