School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gort an Bheithe, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 02_024
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- (continued from previous page)weeks in a bog hole covered up with sods. After that they would spread it out in the fields to dry and bleach and then pound it. Then they combed it with combing tongs and make it into bundles.There was a little stick with three prongs on the spinning wheel to hold the bundles. They worked the spinning wheel their feet and kept drawing down the flax round the wheel and make it in to rollo. Then they drove pegs into the wall and passed the thread n and out of them. then they worked it in to hanks and sent it off to the weavers.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Doire Fada, Co. an Chláir
