School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 200
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Spinning.
people used to use flax for spinning. They would spin as much flax into thread as would do them the whole year for sewing. They would spin and make wool for knitting stockings out of sheep's wool that would do the family for a year.
Thatching.
They would get straw and make bundles of it. They would get mortar and mix it well. while one man would get a ladder and put in stopples on. They would use no mortar. They would make the stopples with straw- they would get a hand-full of straw and roll some of the straw at one end of the stopple.
Tradesmen.
A man used to go to houses to make boots long ago and he would be supported till he would have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Tom Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
