School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Baile Mhic Oireachtaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 289
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- (continued from previous page)1. Thorns were used instead of clothes pins.
2. Blackberries were pounded into pulp and used for blacking shoes.
3. Alder berries were used for dyes - Beautiful red shades were produced for dyeing flannel.4. The difference between a brogue and a shoe does not consist in the strength of the material. Like a brogue a shoe may be made very strong and be unbound. The brogue is generally made of kip, a sort of thin raw hide and is always unbound and unlined. The difference between it and the shoe consists in the sole and welt being sown together with a thong of leather instend of wax end.After flax hd been steeped in a bog-hole or drain and bleached on the anough, it was taken home kiln-dried and in process of time broken, preparatory to being hackled, sctitched, and spun into yarn - all done by the people of the home. The men usually broke the flax.
A large stool was laid flat on the floor. The worker sat behind it with a leg across each end, placed the sheaf of dried flax along the stool and with a long stout beetle broke up the outer husk or cuticle of the fibre
