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School: Árd Ailinne (Mount Allen) (roll number 13143)

Location:
Mountallen, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine, Bean Uí Loingsigh
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    Old crafts
    In olden times the women and young girls worked hard. The wove and spun all the linen and wooled n materials needed in the home.
    The process of linen making. Flax was grown, and when ripe it was cut, and steeped in a bog hole and left there for three weeks. It was then spread out to dry and then "scutched" which means beetling it until all the sot matter was bruised out of it. All the girls went to one house for a day and scotched flax. The next day they went to the next house and so on until all the neighbors' flax would be scotched. It was then "heckled" by the "heckler" of the district. The "heckler" of this district was James Ryan, Lislea, Drumshanbo. It was then spun into thread on a spin-
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Informant
    Mr T. Fleming
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    67
    Address
    Lodge, Co. Roscommon