School: Bealach, Bansha (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S. Meiscill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 267
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- Opposite the house now owned by Mr. Michael Barry (Contractor), Foxfort, Bansha (1938), and about 2 miles S.W. from the latter village there lived a man named Patrick Fitzgerald locally known as "Pad the Weaver."
There was a woollen mill in Bansha at the time (about 1870) and here the wool was "carded" and made into "rolls".
The "rolls" were lent to a woman named Kitty Moroney who lived in Lisnagaul, Bausha, and she spun it into thread,.
The thread was then sent on to "Pad the Weaver" who wove it into cloth on his wooden loom. If any special colour was required the cloth was sent to an agent of a firm of "Dyers who lived in the town of Tipperary about 6 miles distant.
"Tammeen" was the name given to a special cloth used in the making of ladies gowns. It had a smooth shiny surface.
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Grogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Montanavoe, Co. Tipperary
