School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)locally. From the wool socks and stockings are knitted.
- There were spinning wheels in the old houses. The old people used to scutche flax and out of it they used to spin thread and then weave it into cloth. There was an old woman in my house. She used to make blankets and towels and other things out of cloth which she wove and out of carved wool she made the blankets.
- Collector
- Martin Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Copse, Co. Roscommon
