School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic de Chlár
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“There lived in Killamonagh long ago a man an old man and there were big "carracks" of rocks on his land . . .”
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- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killamanagh, Co. Galway
- They sowed flax seed in ground like corn, grew green like corn high. When ripe turning yellow picked by hand in single shaws in bundles + burned in a log hole to make it tough for a certain time. Taken up + spread around then rows carefully turned occasionally for a few days to save it. Gathered and in large bundles + put in a hay loft [?] winter is in. Taken down and broken up with [?] to take rough skin off with [?] tongs, a long round stick with [?] up middle of it. Flax was put through [?] to knock coarse skin off it. It was first scutched with something [?] about 2' long. Flax was beaten by scutching stick. Flax hanging from table - both sides of flax was scutched with stick - which was thick on(continues on next page)
