School: Lloyd (Scoil Laoide) (roll number 15987)
- Location:
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Choibián
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0266, Page 200
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- Its often I heard the old people make the remark: "How changed everything is since we were young, the young people to-day wear no home-mades, all straight from the shop. And if we ask them about their young days they will tell us the fireside industeries the old spinning wheels and weaving looms which changed the raw-wool into home made thread, which in turn was spun into stockings and baíníns for the young boys and girls. The flax was grown specially for the making of sheets which used last for twenty years.
Young and old were kept busy with the work; the wool was spun and carded and dyed at home; every house had its wheel for the manufacture of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bea Boyd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
