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Photograph of Patcheen Faherty Sealing the bottom of a currach.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of Patcheen Faherty Sealing the bottom of a currach.
Description Photograph of Patcheen Faherty Sealing the bottom of a currach with tar, Aran Islands. The boat lies slightly to the left, beside a dry stone wall. Patcheen stands to the right, facing left, brushing on the tar from an old black cooking pot at his feet. Large stones are used to keep the currach in place. A stoney beach mets the Sea in the right background.
Date 01/01/1952
Date Issued 01/07/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p101707.jpg
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Currachs,Tar,Skin boats,Pots,Dry stone walls,Sealing compounds,Beaches
Geographic Aran Islands (Ireland)
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow