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Photograph of a young man Sealing the bottom of a currach.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of a young man Sealing the bottom of a currach.
Description Photograph of a young man Sealing the bottom of a currach with tar, Aran Islands. The currach lies, upside down, in the centre foreground. Large stones are used to keep it in place. To the left is a tall dry stone wall. The young man stands to the right of the currach. He wears trousers, a jumper and a bobble hat and holds a t-shaped brush. At the man's feet is an old black cooking pot of tar. The roof of a house is visible in the right background, on the horizon.
Date 01/01/1952
Date Issued 01/07/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p101703.jpg
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Currachs,Tar,Pots,Dry stone walls,Sealing compounds
Geographic Aran Islands (Ireland)
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow