Scoil: Tigneatha

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Old Crafts

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There were a great many old crafts carried on in this district in olden times such as Spinning, Weaving, Making. The way candles were made in former times was to melt tallow and put into an iron mould. They used to put a string through for the middle for a wick. They used to spin thread from wool with a spinning wheel. The spinning wheel was a big wooden wheel on a stand. First they mixed oil through the wool. Then they carded it with two pieces timber with wire teeth. They used to colour the thread with elder-berry. Long ago they used to make soap from washing soda and lime and tallow. The tallow was melted and the lime and washing were melted and boiled with the tallow. When it was cold it was cut out in squares and fit for use. In former times the people used to grind wheat with querns. These querns were two large stones with one on the top of the other and grind the wheat between them. There is a quern outside the blacksmiths

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   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
   2. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Eileen Shaughnessy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Tynagh, Co. Galway

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Shaughnessy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

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   Seoladh

   Tynagh, Co. Galway