School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 173
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- -ets and flannels. Most of the houses still have homemade blankets. The rolls of wool were spun on the wooden-wheel, or on the linen wheel. The linen wheel made finer thread.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- K. Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Drumdaff, Co. Mayo
- (continued from previous page)At the present day we who are accustomed to good light would find it very hard to go back to a hundred years ago. At that time our fore-fathers had nothing to show them light only bog-deal chips. They got the bog-deal in the bog and brought it home and let it dry on the hob. When it was lighting someone would have to hold it or they would put a sharp point on the bottom of it, and stick it in a turnip on the hob.
