School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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There are many ways of making cloth but the people long ago had a lot more ways of making them and they counted the way i am going to write about about the best in the world.They themselves were able to do nearly everything that was needed to be done with the cloth .the method of making the cloth was this .The used call flax.
Then when it would grow they would not cut it until it would be ripe.Then they would cut it down like oats or wheat and then they would tie it up.When it would be withered they would put it down steeping in a pol for a few days or so. Then they would take it up and beat it on a stone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Knocknahannee, Co. Clare
