School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 6293)
- Location:
- Tully More, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhrisleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1048, Page 108
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- This account was told to me by my mother Cassie McHugh, Tullyvleave, Ardara who heard it from her mother Cecily Mulhern, Tullycleave aged about 80 years.
The clothes the people wore long ago were made at home. They were made with flannel and linen. The old women spun the linen. Some of the thread was spun very fine, and sheets and white shirts were made of it. These shirts were worn only on Sunday. Flannel shirts were worn on week days. Other shirts were made with coarser thread and they were called "Wrappers". The coarse part of the flax - which was left over - after the finer parts had made into linen was used for making large bags or sacks for holding oatmeal.
Some of the linen was dyed and made into drugget which was a very strong material and was used for making women's clothing. Some of it was dyed with "crotal" which made it brown and some with heather which dyed it a light reddish colour and some of it was dyed with the small branches of the elder tree. "Yellow Gowens" (a common wild flower) were also used for dying purposes.
- Collector
- Eamonn Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ardara, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Cecliy Mulhern
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Informant
- Cassie Mc Hugh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardara, Co. Donegal
