Scoil: Killoscully, Newport (uimhir rolla 12029)
- Suíomh:
- Cill Ó Scolaí, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Múinteoir: Mrs. Julia Bourke
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0538, Leathanach 213
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- Different industries which were formerly carried on & mostly all now discontinued, would include spinning, weaving, candle-making, dyeing, thattching, rope-making, tanning of leather, making barrels, churns, firkins, tubs &c , lime burning.
Spinning and weaving wool
Treatment of wool before Spinning
Sheep washed & wool shorn as at present. Then the wool was teased & usually taken to the mill. Here it was heckled (hackled) by machines. A certain amount oil was put on every stone of wool.
It was 'hackled' twice by machines and was dropped cut in rolls about as thick as the finger & 2' or 3' long. This was called carding or rolling. Sometimes carding was done by hand - 'Cards' were timber boards with fine wire teeth. All the wool was pulled through the comb & the fibres straightened. Most of the people of this place took the wool to Clare Glen mills.
- Spinning was done in almost every house in the old days. The spinning wheel was fixed on a kind of stool. Out of one end of stool stood a shaft to which the wheel was attached (the wheel was about(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
