School: Beacán (C.)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)blankets, and quilts and they also made linens from flax.
The farmers grew a little flax, this was cut and stooked, and steeped in the bog. After a while it was taken out and dried on a hill. It was beetled, and scutched with a stock and handle, and brought to the weaver and made into linen.
The women used to dye all their own clothes. The dye was made out of heather, logwood and coprys. Those were steeped in water and then the water was strained out of them, and the clothes were put into it, and stirred about with a stick until(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Higgins
- Gender
- Female
