School: Cnoc Breac (roll number 13041)
- Location:
- Knockbrack, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0450, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)on the meadows to bleach it and left there for nine or ten days until it be properly dried. They gathered it and put it on a hurdle or dried over a fire before it was pounded. It was then parted out to men to pound it. They way they used pound it was a band of men used to get his sheaf of flax and pound it with a tuairgin a long stick with a heavy end on it. Then after that is was cloved and made small and then it was hackled out with a machine with iron spears. It used be spun then by means of a spinning wheel worked by the foot. The thread was then bleached out and was then wound by means of a winding blade into bales. It was then wound on a warping bar made into a chain ans sent to the weaver to make cloth. Whent he cloth used to be made then the people used to bring it home and make sheets and shirts out of it.
- Collector
- Eileen Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Scanlon
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Headley Bridge, Co. Kerry
