School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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- (continued from previous page)that night the men died.
- Long ago all the old people had spinning wheels for spinning thread from their own wool. There was an old woman named Mrs Buckley living in our district near the school who died recently. She had a spinning wheel a short time before she died, she was spinning thread for socks. She kept black sheep for to have the black wool. There is a man living in the district still who makes tubs and barrels, he also makes butter boxes for the local creamery. At some periods of the year he makes his living at this work alone. He has a workshop adjacent to his house where he does his work. This man is called a(continues on next page)
