School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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- Informant
- Martin O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway
- (Continued)There were many tuck-mills. In this mills people used to spin wool and weave cloth and dye it. In Trehill near Ballinamore, there were a few tuck mills. There are none there now. A lot of people used send wool there to get cloth made. They paid for having the work done. In Ballinlass near Ballygar there was another tuck-mill. Flannel was made there. In Caltralea near Fairfield Bog there was a man named Tom Hibbets who used to spin, weave and dye and for payment he kept a certain amount of each customer's wool.