School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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One of these weavers lived and worked in the townland of Dernakesh. His name was Patrick McMahon. - The cultivation of flax in Ireland about fifty years ago was a very profitable occupation. In those days the people laboured the flax with their own hands. There was a house built purposely for the drying of the flax. There was a large turf fire and over it was a shelf made of sally-rods. The flax was put on this shelf and someone had to stay with it all the time to keep it turned. It was then beetled with two rollers on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killatee, Co. Cavan