School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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- (continued from previous page)Some people tatching with cannawains the used to leave the white tops down. These used to been seen in the years 1846
- Spinning is the home crafts I have seen done all the women spin their own wool and make socks and stocking. The little spinning machine if we might call it so a very simple one the under part is like a form with four sticks under it to keep it lifted about 2 feet from the ground at each end of this there is a thick piece of timber one for holding the rim which is made of much like the wheel of a bicycle and it is twisted by means of a strong cord made of woollen thread which has to be long enough to go from the spindle and around the rim and the wheel.
- Collector
- Annie Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughatorick North, Co. Galway