School: Bailieboro (Model)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 056
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These were the wood of trees. The dye was put in with water and it was boiled and the garment was dyed in this it produced a black dye only
4. Long ago the people used to spin their own thread on a spinning wheel. First they grew flax, and spun the flax into thread, and then wove the thread into linen and they would sell the linen in the markets.
5. The people long ago had a bicycle which they called a penny farthing bicycle, and why it was so called was because, there was a big wheel like a penny in front and behind was a tiny wheel like a farthing.
6. When you are making a hay rope you have to have two people one of them to twist, with a thing called a twister and the other to let out the material for the rope. Ropes of that kind are made nowadays for putting on hay to keep it from being blown away by the wind.
7. In olden days the people had log wheels. They were round logs of wood with no spokes and the people used them for bicycle, cart and trap wheels.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr J. Mc Cartney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
