School: St Columba’s, Coggale
- Location:
- Cogaula, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Fiacháin
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- Flax
Steep the flax for 6 days. They dry it & make it into sheys. Beetle it and scutch it with a scutching handle & block Sit down & clove it Then put it through a hackle
Get a line wheel and spin it Get a small wheel & make it into hanks Then send it to the weaver (Industry not now in being)Candle Making:
Before paraffin oil was in use people used to pull a bunch of rushes and dip them in tallowSpinning wool:
The wool was first oiled with sweet-oil. Then it was teased by the hand Then it was carded, with card(continues on next page)