School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 407
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- (continued from previous page)from sally rods that still grow in marshy ditchs, they used to cut the rods a year before they wanted them, so as to let them dry all summer. They would also turn brown with the heat. When they were quite dry, they plaited the rods together to make the baskets.
Long ago the people used to spin their wool themselves. They spun it with a spinning wheel. They washed the wool and dried it. Then they carded it. They put it on the spinning wheel and kept drawing the thread towards themselves then they went back toward the wheel and the thread was made into a yarn.
Long ago the people used to dye the wool and clothes with coloured flowers. They used to dye with the heather and the roses and the blossoms of the furze bush. First they boiled the flowers and got the water of them and dipped the clothes in it.
They used to make clay pipes out of yellow clay. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dowth, Co. Meath
