School: Ráth na Loch (C.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 17000)
- Location:
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 081
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- (continued from previous page)hung up in a cool place to season.Spinning
In my grandmother's time everyone spun their own thread at home. There were two kinds of spinning wheels, one for spinning wool into yarn or thread, and the other for spinning flax into thread, for making linen.
Flax seed was first set in March or April. It grew into a long thin blade and a blue flower came on it. It was then pulled in September with the hand and tied in small bundles. It was next put soaking in a glen or pond of water in the bog. After some time it was drawn out and spread very thinly on the field to dry. When dry it was bound up into bundles again and and put into a house to get thoroughly dry and brittle. it was then taken and placed between two blocks of wood and pounded. Then it was drawn through a machine called(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Molly Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Breen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Kerry
