School: Lisselton (B.) (roll number 10535)
- Location:
- Lisselton, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Brún
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 130
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- (continued from previous page)enough it is brought into a house and put in winding blades and rolled into balls. Then it is put on warping pegs on the wall. It is then taken to the weaver to be made into cloth. The tow is for canvas and the flax is for linen.
- Long ago in our forefathers' time the usual way for setting potatoes was to take the skin off the land and make it into heaps in the garden. Then they burned it and this they called fallow or manure.
- Collector
- John Ó Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydonohoe, Co. Kerry
