oarsmen - Inishere; some features of this drawing are faulty: the oars especially (There is also a sketch of the correct position of ‘glamba’).

cliabh feamainne: a peg is attached inside left-hand bottom of cliabh around which a rope tying a load of seaweed on the outside of cliabh to prevent osiers being damaged. Tying is a simple loop as in top sketch and makes for ease of untying of load.

Houses at Luogh with Inis Oírr (Aran) in the background.

man using a seaweed rake/ráca feamainne, Inis Oírr.

Bringing home the turf.

different methods of storing and drying kelp Inishere; stones set upright in fissure as boundry marks.

Mrs O'Donnell.

Carrying a barrell of Guinness on a donkey's back.

Máirtín Ó Donnell, Inishere.

Spillet fishing - Inishere; tarred sheepskin buoy; ribh; buoy with line attached; glionda (not connected with spillet fishing).

Inishere - canna; cloth to keep lid tight. Dowry chest (size: app. 2’.4’’ x 1’.9’’ x 1’.10’’). Ráca fheamainne.

Interior - Inishere.

National Folklore Collection. Photographic Collection

Men carrying stones on a handbarrow; pampootie and piece of unshaven cowhide from which it is made; oars lying on jutting stone in wall and weighted with stone to remove warp.

seaweed and sand gathering - Inishere.

Inishere - cliabh eadiagh; cliabh gainibh (continuous weaving without openings.

Leo Corduff and a group of men in Seán Ó Confhaola's public house, Inis Oírr, Co. na Gaillimhe. From left: Michael Anthony Ó Domhnaill, Murchadh an Phoist (Donoghue), Peaidí Chóilí Fada (Conneely), Leo Corduff, Michael Kevin Pól, Máirtín Ó Domhnaill (uncle to Michael Anthony), Colm Donnacha.

ciseog, back view and framework; ciseáin; cliabh feamainne (box type) - Inishere.

Inishere, stólta beaga. Coirb (le capall), coirbh (le hasal).

warping bars height aprox 8 ft. - Inishere.

Cliabh feamainne; piece of wood to prevent rope tying load from cutting basket; construction of bottom of cliabh fheamuinne (open to permit water to run out); ciséanín - Inishere.

preparing the ground for potatoes - Inishere: Fields are always ridged in the same pattern as they were originally, but the manure is laid with the depression of old sowings in the centre of the new ridge, thus leaving the higher ground for the new trenches. This ensures a greater depth of soil for covering the potatoes. Pattern of swing field of uneven shape.

Cóilí Donohoe ("Fear na Tíre"), Inishere, Aran.

Inishere men.