School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)
- Location:
- Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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- Not so long ago [?] was quite a different system prevailing in this country in the woollen industry. From the time the wool was shorn from the sheep until it was made into suit [?] it seldom or never left the townland [?] be handled.
First of all this wool was "teased", that was [?] out of the little lumps that it was in in the fleece. T [?] "teasing" was done by hand by the young(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rose Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cark, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Madge Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cark, Co. Donegal