School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 143
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- Spinning.
Long ago the people spun all their own cloths.
First the flax was sown in our fields like the oats.
The blossom of the flax was of a delicate blue.
Then it was pulled by the roots, then it is laid in drains and heavy stones put on it to keep it from rising and when it had grown soft from lying in the water, then it is taken up and spread out to dry in the sun.
When it was soaked and dried, it was beaten and heckled and put through a number of processes. Then it was put on the spinning wheel and spun into thread, then it was brought to the weaver and weaved into linen.
The thread of the linen was made into all classes of materials.
The woolen thread was made(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Michael Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
