School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)

Location:
Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 373

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    Long ago weavers were not very common but the people of the country would weave their own clothes at home.

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    the shore and send it away and they would get it made into guano. The people who made churns or tubs would charge for a tub two and six or two shillings and for churns it was seven shillings and seven and six.
    There was brown bodoga pulled at the shore and the would send it away to England and Scotland and they would make medicians out of them and it would be sold in Druggists.
    There where men and they made wheels for carts and the charge of a new wheel would be fifteen shillings. When ever they get pair they would go to a sheebeen house.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. spinning and weaving (~482)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Magheramore, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    John Toland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Magheramore, Co. Donegal