Straw ridging methods

Ivor Kilpatrick demonstrated straw ridge preparation

Straw ridge

James Kilpatrick shows the trainees how to prepare straw for ridging

Eaves out of water reed

Mike Davies, tutor, demonstrating work on an eaves course

Trainees working on the eaves

Extending a main course on the practise roof

Making Flaxen Rope

Old-style skills produce a rope to rival modern technology

Ridging

Brian demonstrates ridging technique

View of Roof

Roof after netting down

Roping down

Brian and Sean tying on ropes

Putting on scraws

Scraws going on in the Donegal tradition of Meitheal

Finishing the scraws

Scraws going on in the Donegal tradition of Meitheal

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