School: Cornagilta (roll number 16408)
- Location:
- Cornagilty, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Luke Owens
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- Flax was grown on almost every farm about fifty years ago. It was scutched in their homes. Often when a man needed money to pay rent the neighbours went to his house and scutched his flax so that he could sell it and get money.The flax was scutched by a stalk and handle. Each scutched handful was called a streak, and about - four of these streaks made a stone weight.
- Collector
- Owen Clerkin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bernard Clerkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Gilford, Co. Monaghan