School: Cill Bheacáin (B.) (roll number 13659)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P.S. Mac Donnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)send it to the weaver. The weaver made sheets, towels, shirts and linen cloths.
Every person was able to make a candle then. They peeled rushes and dipped the inside a small pot of butter or fat. The women also made their own starch. They used to scrape potatoes and put them in a cloth. They squeezed it till the juice fell down into a basin of water. They poured the water out of the basin when they had finished and the starch was at the bottom.
- Collector
- Frank Kirrane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonbulban, Co. Mayo
