School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)she hangs it out on poles to bleach. Then she dyes it any colour she wishes and when it is dry it is ready for knitting jumpers and stockings.
- There is no cloth woven or spun locally at present but about twenty years ago there was a mill near Bailieborough called the Baileborough Vale factory and cloth used to be woven and spun in it. People used to wear clothes made of that cloth. Irish tweed is mostly used.
- Collector
- Eamonn Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnabantry, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnabantry, Co. Cavan
