School: Leachtbhruadair (Loughfooder) (roll number 14366)

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1. Linen-Making (continued)

   

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   some days until such time as the seeds would be falling off.

   Then it would be taken out and thee sheaved would be ripped open.

   After that the flax is taken to a bare meadow with scarcely any grass.

   There is spread in thin rows in its length to wither and left there under the sky until it is bleached and dry.

   Then it is gathered up in bundles when it is thoroughly dry and taken indoors.

   There the little bundles or sheaves are pounded on a hard floor with an implement called a Túirgín. The túirgín had a club-shaped head and was made of timber.

   The pounding made the flax soft and thread-like.

   Then it was made into little bundles called "takeens" to clove it.

   The cloving was done with a cloving tongs made by a carpenter. Cloving cleaned the flax and weakened it. Cloving was done twice.

   The second cloving made it cleaner still and finer.

   Then it was "hackled" to make it thoroughly clean and free from dust.

   After that it was "carded" and spin with a linen wheel and made into thread.

   Then it would be warped and made into

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Address

   Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mr William Broderick

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Occupation

   Farm-labourer

   Address

   Knocknadarriv, Co. Kerry