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School: Páirc an Éadain (Facefield)

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Facefield, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0100, Page 188

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    Some people give him shirts to make. The cloth used in shirts is plaid.
    In the olden times the people cultivated flax on the land and made cloth out of it; but now-a-days they do not grow flax.
    The people around this district knit stockings and most of the people spin their own thread. There are about twenty spinning wheels in this district.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní hAllagáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Halligan
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlough, Co. Mayo