School: Duíbhlios
- Location:
- Deelish, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 147
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- Linen made from home-grown flax was also made in the home - over sixty years ago. The material produced was almost unwearable - and up till quite recently it was regarded as improper to lay out a corpse in any but a home-made linen sheet. Some of the older generation of women made a point of having these sheets always in readiness for an occasion and some of these fabrics have done duty for over fifty years and are still whole - a great tribute to the excellence of the workmanship.
Flax is no longer grown in the locality, but ponds in which it was [?]retted are still to be seen. The flax "meitheal" for the pulling of the flax was a great occasion - equivalent to a threshing nowadays
Some of the implements used in connection with flax are still extant. The Tlúth (shown opposite) was used for de-hulling the flax. [drawing on page] It was made of fir with a wooden rivet the main arm being grooved for the other to fit into as the blade fits into the haft of a pocket-knife.
Each handful of flax was drawn through this instrument and the hulls lopped off when it was squeezed.
It was then ready for the túairgín.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Súilleabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Deelish, Co. Cork
