School: Cros Chonaill (roll number 8288)
- Location:
- Crossconnell, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Raghnall Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 341
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- Mary Martin 11 May 1938
How our people made cloth
I asked an old women how she made cloth when she was a young and this is what she said
First clipt the sheep.
Wash and dry the wool
Tease it.
Put butter on it
Card it into rools
Then spin it into
Then took of and put on the reel
Every cut goes on it lets a crack and every four makes a gunman. Then the gunman taken of and sent to the loom to be woven into cloth and (sent) after that sent to the mill to be thickened. When the women would gather to the house to men would gather come to help to carry the spining wheels and reels for the women. The women would all start to spin and every woman would be over they would ll start to sing and dance. four hand rills and step dances and the white cock cade. It would be a all Irish songs the old people would sing.
- Collector
- Mary Martin
- Gender
- Female
