School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- My great-grand-mother who lived in Keelogues used to spin linen about seventy years ago. Her husband used to set the flax. He used to pull the flax and bring it to the bog and bog it. When it was bogged he used to spread it out in the bog to bleach. Then he used to bring it home and beat it very hard with a beetle which he made out of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie M. Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo