School: Kilmore (roll number 16126)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shamhráin
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- Collector
- Fergus O' Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Baxter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Derrygoan, Co. Leitrim
- Weaving:- This was told to me by my Grand Mother who is now ninety
Long ago flax was grown by my Grand Mother and made into many things by spinners and weavers. The flax was grown and when it was ripe it was pulled and put in bundles in a bog hole. Then it was brought home and dried and afterwards scutched with a piece of board.
It was sent to a spinners, one was Ane Cline of Derreguan, and then it was sent to Keleher of Mullaghboy or of Kildern who were weavers and made it into cloth.She told me that baskets(continues on next page)