School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)brought to the bleaching mill, and bleached until it was white.
The women made sheets table-cloths, shirts, and dresses from this cloth.
George Robert Fitzgerald also built a mill worked by water power, for the making of linen cloth. There was a bleaching mill near it. The ruins of both are still to be seen.
- There is another home industry which was practised in every house.
The women carded and spun their own wool, and knitted stockings and socks from the thread. Thread for knitting purposes was twisted and doubled. More of the woollen thread was sent to the weaver to be woven into blank(continues on next page) - Collector
- K. O' Malley
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
