School: Piercetown (C.) (roll number 8690)
- Location:
- Piercetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Furlong
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 384
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- Long ago the men used to work in the lime-kilns in Piercestown which are silent at present.Basketmaking was another great employment for the men.The women spent most of their time in quiltmaking, weaving, spinning and dying.
The quilting -frame was made of two pieces of wood.
The finished parts of the quilt were rolled around those two pieces of wood-which you fixed at a distance of about half a yard apart-
The woman worked on the unquilted parts between this frame.This quilting-frame passed through many hands as there were few in the districts.Spinning was a great occupation also.The women were generally seen sitting before a big turf fire whie the man was cobbling.The men used to gather the berrys-
blackberrys and elderberrys - and the women made dye out of them to colour the material which they had woven.They used to boil the berries in a cloth - like a pudding of to-day - and put a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Barron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Piercetown, Co. Wexford
