School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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- Collector
- Rosie King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doorly, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick King
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Long ago in my district there lived a weaver named Pat Gillen in a small village. The people brought him worsted or thread to be woven into flannel and frieze cloth. He wove nearly all the flannel and his spindles were made from reeds called empties but that was forty years ago. His spindles are all gone now, all(continues on next page)