School: Áth Liag (roll number 15308)
- Location:
- Athleague, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0264, Page 081
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- Old Crafts.
Up to about twenty years ago spinning flourished in every house while in every village there was a weaver. They made flannel and frieze clothes blankets and shawls. The machine that did the weaving was called a loom and the last one of those was owned by a man named Patsy Hynes, Newbridge, Ballygar Co Galway who is quite a young healthy man man yet. A few years ago, his brother who is professor in the Galway University got this loom brought brought there by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnasillagh, Co. Roscommon
