School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)grown at home. Most of the people grew flax long ago.
Socks and stockings are knit locally. The thread is spun in the homes and dyed and stocking are knitt with it.
There are differnt spinning wheels such as the small spinning wheel and the big one.
The big spinning wheel is worked by hand.
- There are several tailors still in the district. They work in their own homes usuall. Seldom we hear of tailors travelling from house to house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
