School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)
- Location:
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dáithí de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 122
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Many of the people of this district in former times spun and wove both flax and wool
The Hungerfords of Willow Hill, Kinalea spun and wove flax and wool.
Shirts and bed sheets were of flax.
These shirts were very uncomfortable for the first few days.
The flax was grown in the bogs in ridges just like potaote's in former days.
The Cronins of Robertstown had both a flax wheel and a spinning wheel. But the weaving was done for them by Jer Dineen of Ballintrideen He wove both flax and wool.
The flaxen shirts were called tamin.
The old people always spun the wool at NIGHT for they said it was easier to spin it while the SHEEP were ASLEEP in the fields.
