School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 106
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- (continued from previous page)thoroughly dry.
Then it was scutched which baked the hard shell on it. Next it was taken to the hackler who separated it into two parts, coarse flax and fine flax.
Then it was taken home, and spun into thread, coarse thread and fine thread.
Next it was taken to the weavers who wove it into linen, coarse linen and fine linen.
This linen was made into shirts, sheets and many different things.
- About ninety years ago the people in this district had no soap.
Old stalks and "bohalawns" were gathered and burned. The ashes left was mixed with a little water and made into a thick paste.
This paste was made into small round cakes, with a hole in the centre of each cake.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mr Michael Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Leitrim
