School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)
- Location:
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 357
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- (continued from previous page)used for the toe of the flax, and the perral is used to wind the yarn on, The wool is wound on a reel and it takes 120 yards to fill the real. All the people grew flax from which the linen sheets were made. The flax is sown in April and is pulled f before the 15th of August. It grows nearly a tall as oats about where the oats shoot out, it is pulled and steep in a bog hole until its begins to peel off the skin. Then it is spread out on grass in a thin layer to bleach. Then tied into bundles to dry. It is hackled twice and beetled and scutched as fine as your hair. It is spun then and made ready for (use), the man that made it is made into linen and bleached again and is then ready for use. Bartly McGread was the name of the man that hackled it, he lived beside Lough(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doongelagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Doongelagh, Co. Sligo
