School: Naomh Seosamh, Baile an Ruadháin (roll number 15829)
- Location:
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Nora Lally
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 348
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- (continued from previous page)district long ago. They used to go around to the houses and make the clothes. They made linen shirts.
Linen fabric were originally white, but of that dingy colour which you may see in coarse linen.
They are afterwards whitened by a process which is called bleaching.
- Soap was made from tallow long ago. They got the tallow from the cow and the sheep. They roasted it. They roasted kelp also and mixed it through lime.
- Twine was made from flax long ago. Flax is an annual plant, bearing pretty blue flowers; A field of flax(continues on next page)
