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Photograph of a man throwing rye grass onto a roof for thatching.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of a man throwing rye grass onto a roof for thatching.
Description Photograph of a young man throwing up a bundle of rye grass onto the roof of a cottage for thatching, Inishmore, Aran Islands. In the left foreground, stands the young man, his hands out in front of him. He looks up at the bundle of rye grass he threw in the air. Another young man, in the right back/midground, sits with both feet on a rung of a ladder tied onto the roof, of the white washed cottage. He has both his hands ready to catch the bundle. Stone walls runs on the far side of the cottage, in the left and right foreground.
Date 01/01/1952
Date Issued 01/07/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p102709.jpg
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Thatched buildings,Thatched roofs,Cottages,Stone walls,Ryegrasses
Geographic Inishmore (Ireland),Aran Islands (Ireland)
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow