School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
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- Informant
- Peter Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
- In Moolum a hilly district situated between Kilmacow and Mullinavat an old woman used to grow flax on her own farm and then reap it & put the flax through all the necessary processes. She had to steep it in a pond in her own field as she would be prosecuted & fined heavily if she were caught steeping the flax in the river (Blackwater a tributary of the Suir) as the poison given off by the flax would kill the fish(continues on next page)