School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Cnoc an Bhile, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 399
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- (continued from previous page)thread is again put on the spinning wheel and is spun into one thread which is now ready for use.
From the home-spun yarn all the socks and stockings were made. For men's socks after the yarn was knitted it was usually washed and bleached white and for women's stockings it was dyed after it was knitted.
Formerly nearly all the women and girls in the district could spin. Mrs. James Cormack (The Downs, Parish of Kinnegad) spins the wool for socks up to the present day.
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Glynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loch an Troim, Co. na hIarmhí
