School: Clandouglas, Lic Snámha (roll number 10380)
- Location:
- Clondouglas, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sheanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 076
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- It was a great custom of the old people to grow flax for the use of their own household.
The seed was sown in the Spring-time of the year, and the crop was generally ripe about August or September. It was then pulled by hand, and removed to a bog-hole and placed in the water, with flags or weights down on it. After ten days it was taken from the bog-hole and tied into sheaves. It was then taken back to the farm yard and spread out to dry then pounded with bittles, and next cloven with a cloving tongs.
The women usually carded and rolled it and spun it in a linen wheel. They next wound the thread into skeins and sent it to the mill to make linen-cloth of it.
From that linen they then made tablecloths, sheets, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Fuller
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Fuller
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Glanoe, Co. Kerry
