School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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- It is very seldom you would see a spinning wheel now, not like long ago when there was one nearly in every house. My Mother Mrs Margaret Tobin, has a spinning wheel and I think it is the only one in the district. It is a very old one being nearly hundred, years old. It belonged to my Mother's great-Grandmother Mrs Jane Grey. It is worked by the foot. My Mother only spins thread to knit socks or jumpers. Her Grandmother and great-Grandmother used to spin flax and weave it into lovely white linen. They also used to make dye out ot the berries of an Alder tree and dye the wool. My Mother great-Grandmother was so good at weaving she was called "Jane the Weaver".
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Tobin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumsawry or Summerbank, Co. Meath
