School: Whitecastle (roll number 10231)
- Location:
- Whitecastle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: George Mc Cahey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 209
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- Long ago spinning was a great trade in Inishowen. They reared the sheep on the mountains and got the wool of them. They cut the wool of the sheep in the summer and washed it and dried it. They then stored it in a press till the winter came.
In the winter nights the women brought out their spinning wheels, and spun the wool into yarn. The spinning wheel was made up of a table, a wheel, and a pedal. The woman worked the pedal with her foot, and the wheel went round very fast.
Long ago my grand-mother asked to have a spinning wheel, and she used to spin wool into yarn.
- Collector
- Florence Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cabry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cabry, Co. Donegal
