School: Drom Mór (C.), Malla (roll number 13780)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Cork
Teacher:
M. Uí Uallaighe
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  1. Composition 14-9-1938
    Old Crafts
    Not very long ago, a woman, living in Bottlehill named Mollie Hasset earned her living with her spinning wheel. For years she spun her own clothes and sold the surplus of her work to her neighbours. This old woman is dead now but up to the very end, she kept her spinning wheel, at her death it was removed from the district and her house was closed.
    In the same district there are two lime kilns but very little is
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Location
    Bottlehill, Co. Cork
    Collector
    Nora O' Hanlon
    Gender
    Female