School: Brownhill (roll number 11427)
- Location:
- Tirnaskea North, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Ghamail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0955, Page 030
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- About 70 years ago in the townland of Sheetrim, Tydavnet, when a boy, Mr Wilkinson remembers carding wool for his mother, who spun yarn for knitting socks. She had a reel and wound the wool in "cuts" as we buy it now.
When the reel was being wound, it gave a "crack" when the proper amount was rolled.
When the teeth of the "cards" became worn, she sent the cards to a man by the name of "Finnlay" who lived in Tydavnet village. This man also made spinning wheels, and repaired broken wheels.
Mr Wilkinson's mother picked a silky stone of Flax and sent it to a "hackler" who lived in Tydavnet, she liked to have her own thread
- Informant
- Mr A. Wilkinson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corragh (Maxwell), Co. Monaghan
