School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)stone and keep beating it with a mallet so as to break off the hulls of it which were rough shells on the outside of the flax. This work was called "pounding the flax". After this it was drawn through a hackle. This was a piece of thick timber, with a number of iron spikes driven into it in one place, about six inches square, making a sort of comb. This was done to comb the hulls off. It was now fairly clean. They then cloved it with a cloving tongs, a piece of stick with a hollow groove, in which another piece of stick called "a tongue" was fixed. They drew the flax between the stick and the tongue. This made it cleaner and frees it from the tow which is an inferior part of the flax. This process was called cloving. At that time they gave each hank or handful of the flax a twist and folded it once. It was then ready for spinning. This was done by means of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaunacurraheen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Sheehy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Kerry
