School: Naomh Baoithin, Tullydish (roll number 3160)
- Location:
- Tullydush Upper, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 96
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- There are about five tailors in Buncrana village, bit none in the out lying districts, that I know of.
In my district the sheep are clipped once each year and most of this wool is spun into thread and the rest sold in Buncrana to Edward Fullerton, Main Street Wool Merchant.
This wool is spun with a spinning wheel and nearly every house has a wheel. The different parts are called the heck which keeps the yarn straight, and the purn which rolls the yarn into balls, the rim or edge and lastly the belt and paddle which is worked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bauville Keeloges and Clonglash, Co. Donegal
