School: Caonach (roll number 14923)
- Location:
- Keenagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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- (continued from previous page)peeled off, so as to have the back cleaner.
Spinning is done with a wheel. There are two kinds of wheels - wollen-wheels and linen-wheels, wool can be spun with both. The wollen-wheel is much larger than the linen-wheel.
People dye with onion skins, moss and heather. They do it by boiling the dye in water, then the article to be dyed is put into it and boiled.
Ropes are made out of long rushes. They are first beetled and steeped in a mossy pool then taken up and dried and twisted together into ropes.
Lime is burned in kilns with [?] and limestone. Fish are caught in nets and with a fishing rod. Fowling is carried on with dogs, guns and traps.
Rushes, straws and rye are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridgie Lynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keenagh Beg, Co. Mayo
