School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. Flood
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)spins it into thread with a spinning wheel.
Then she knits stockings and cardigans and sometimes she sends it to a weaver and he would make a blanket out of it. There is a weaver in Gurrane named weaver Byrne. - There were weavers in Streamstown and in Johnstown. They used to weave blankets, rugs and other things. There are spinning wheels in many houses yet. There is one in my house. My aunt works it. She spins thread and from the thread she makes stockings and men's jumpers. The people one used to have linen wheels where they used to spin flax. There is one in my aunt's house in Lavallyroe. My aunt can(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary T. Noone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Redmond Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon