School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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- (continued from previous page)spun in the district.
Clothes are made from different kinds of material:- serge, tweed, cotton and silk. All the shirts are made locally. No thread is spun in the locality.
- 6. Cloths are not spun or woven in the district. Some women make shirts in their homes. I have heard that shirts were made from flax grown locally and also sheets. There is no spinning wheel in the district.
- Collector
- Una Tivenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornameelta, Co. Roscommon
