Source: International Business Times
Trainee Fidelma Toland follows a course at the Donegal Thatching school in Portnoo, Donegal, north western Ireland which has opened in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched roofs AFP A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape. In a hall in Portnoo students at the Donegal Thatching School clamber over practice roofs under the watchful eye of Brian Lafferty, one of Ireland's last master thatchers. "That's it, start at the eaves and work from there," said the 72-year-old, peering upwards as a student laid and fixed batches of flax straw on top of a purpose-built model house.
