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School: Áth Liag (roll number 15308)

Location:
Áth Liag, Co. Ros Comáin
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0264, Page 087

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    Linen-making:- Flax was sown When it would be ripe it would be taken home and left in a hole for a while. It was taken up dried. A man called a hackler would come and hackle it. He would have two sorts of thread, fine thread and coarse thread. The fine thread. (was) The fine thread was spun into clothes and the coarse thread into bags
    Tanneries: In the the tanyard of Athleague there was a tannery. Taaffe was the man who owned it. There was also a brewery owned by the same man
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
        1. gnó agus ceird (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Conboy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Áth Liag, Co. Ros Comáin
    Informant
    Miss Farrell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Áth Liag, Co. Ros Comáin