School: Craoibh Liath (roll number 15639)
- Location:
- Creevelea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)Then the hackler came and hackled the flax. The hackle was a wooden frame which contained three sets of hackle-pins. The first set was coarse, the second one medium and the third one was very fine.
Then the women spun it into yarn and later it was sent to "The bleach-green" to be bleached. The nearest bleach-green was at Glenboy near Manorhamilton.
The tow or coarse flax was made into ropes and sacks and the finer stuff was woven into household linens. My mother has a real homespun table-linen yet.
- Informant
- Mary Flynne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Tawnylea, Co. Leitrim
