School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Cill Áirne
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: An tSr. M. Déaglán An tSr. Marie Thérèse
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 246
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- How People made Linen Long AgoFlax is sown much like oats broadcast. When it is fully ripe it is a lovely sight with all blue flowers on top of it. It is then pulled and bound into sheaves, after a few days it is carried to a deep boghole and covered over with sods. It is left there for a week. It is then taken up and spread in a field in rows where it is left for a week or two to bleach. It is then gathered up in small bundles. The next process is to pound it and before that is done it is put over a large dull fire to harden. Then it is taken off and pounded with bittles [?].The bittle must be round with a handle on it. It is then made into thaweens, a number of women will come to clove it with the cloving thongues. A cloving thongues is a piece of round timber, the length and thickness of a spadetree.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Knockeenduff, Co. Kerry
