School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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- (continued from previous page)waist coats" (They were never called "báiníns") and drawers. The Irish speakers called the "white waistcoats" bhest Bán ("s" broad)
When one wanted to be tidy when working one knotted the two ends in front.
I knew one old man who used to wear an extra short "white waistcoat" and with a tab and white button about midways in front to close it.
The wheel of the spinning wheel was made of wood. The "band" was made of one piece of wood about 4 inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick. The spokes - I think there are about 16 - were "turned" as was the "stock". The spokes were mortised into the "stock" but were only nailed to the band.
Séamus Ó Maolcathaigh, O.S., Grange N.S.
Note: Ir. for spinning-wheel pronounced "túrthan"
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
