School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- Spinning was done in every house in parish. There were linen & woollen wheels, flax been then grown in Meelick.
Woollen wheels were quite common, but the linen ones don't seem to have been so numerous. The woollen wheels were worked much later, being in use up to about 45 years ago
- The woollen wheel was worked by hand & the linen wheel worked by foot treadle. The woollen was much bigger.
The woollen stand was like a [?] with 4 legs & was about 3½ to 4 feet long. There was a square piece of timber, about 4 inches square, mortised into the(continues on next page)
