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School: Beanna (roll number 9524/5)

Location:
Banna West, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cearbhaill

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0414, Page 289

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Old Crafts

In the year 1900 a man by the name of Paddy Fealy had the trade of making baskets. He had a twig yard down in Ballykealy bog.
Every Saturday he used carry his baskets to Tralee market and sell them at two shillings a piece.
About the same time a woman used go from house to house spinning. She was well known round the place as "Nora the spinning woman". When she used have the flax she used send it to Kilmailey to a man by the name of Mulvihill who used weave it into sheets.

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Collector
Peg Lawlor
Gender
female
Address
Ballymacquin Upper, Co. Kerry
Informant
Mrs Mary Mc Carthy
Gender
female
Address
Ballymacquin Upper, Co. Kerry
Language
English

Old Crafts

Long ago they had no machine for threshing the corn like we have now. They had no reaper and binders for cutting the corn. But they used to cut it with hooks and bind it with their hands.
They used to bring to into the house and thresh it with

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