School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)
- Location:
- Muileann na Cille, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chéadagáin
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- 18th-5-1938
Johanna and Stasia Conway. Told by their father - John Conway, of Glenpipe, New Ross, aged 56.
In olden times people used to make stools called "Bossis" out of sugans around and stitch them
Also people used to sow plates when they were broken with tin.
Old women used to make hats out of sugans and sell them in town for sixpence.
In olden times people used to mend plates with tin.
They used also make straw stools called "bosses" This is how it was done:- they used to make a sugan and wind it around and around ans sew it.
The old women used to knit socks for the men. It is said that you would not see their fingersgoing they could knit so quickly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johanna Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Collector
- Stasia Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- John Conway
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
