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School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)

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Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
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Dáithí de Barra
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  1. Old Mills (continued)

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    Mr Coveney had shops in Kinsale where the goods were sold. Much of the trade was done by barter, people getting goods in exchange for fleeces At one time there were as many as thirty people working there. It gradually declined until there were only a weaver and spinner employed. No work has been done there since about 1930.
    The mill is now in ruins.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Old Crafts

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    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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Bowen
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Granig, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs O Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Willowhill, Co. Cork
    Informant
    William Bowen
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Granig, Co. Cork
    Informant
    William O Brien
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Willowhill, Co. Cork