School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 181
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- Long ago, the people of Rockchapel dyed the wool with a plant called the
Yellow Root.
They pulled the Yellow Root, washed and boiled it. The garment was steeped for four days in the Yellow dye and it came out a dark brown. This dye was generally used for woollen garments.
Log-wood
The people dyed cloth with the juice of plants. Log-wood was used to dye the cloth black.
Copperas
was used to dye the cloth black.
Sorrel
was boiled with blackberries to dye the cloth black.
The sorrrel was boiled the red flower of the fuschia, to dye cloth red.
Sorrel is a plant that grows on the brow of potato ridges.
- Collector
- John Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Robert Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockahorrea East, Co. Cork
