School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)with washing soda and pour it into tin shapes until it was hard. Baskets:-
A mointeán scraith about six inches thick and about two feet square was got and the sátáns or strong sticks were stuck in it and the twigs were woven around them. They were well seasoned before being used. The rods were cut in November because they are ripe then.Spinning and weaving.
The wool was washed and combed with the fingers. It was oiled, carded, made into rolls and spun with a spinning wheel into thread by putting the thread on the top of the spindle and twisting the wheel with the fingers of the left hand and holding the roll with the right. Then wind the thread into big balls and warp it with warping pins by sticking wooden pins into a wall and making hanks of it and wash the oil off them and leave them dry and make it into balls again. Then take it to a weaver and weave it into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Croínín
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Seán Ó Connaill
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
