Scoil: Piercetown (C.) (uimhir rolla 8690)

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1. Occupations

   

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   Long ago the men used to work in the lime-kilns in Piercestown which are silent at present.

   Basketmaking was another great employment for the men.

   The women spent most of their time in quiltmaking, weaving, spinning and dying.
   The quilting -frame was made of two pieces of wood.
   The finished parts of the quilt were rolled around those two pieces of wood-which you fixed at a distance of about half a yard apart-
   The woman worked on the unquilted parts between this frame.

   This quilting-frame passed through many hands as there were few in the districts.

   Spinning was a great occupation also.

   The women were generally seen sitting before a big turf fire whie the man was cobbling.

   The men used to gather the berrys-
   blackberrys and elderberrys - and the women made dye out of them to colour the material which they had woven.

   They used to boil the berries in a cloth - like a pudding of to-day - and put a

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