School: Bigwood, Mullinavat (roll number 2961)
- Location:
- Rathnasmolagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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- Long ago the people in the distric of Rahard used to make linen out of flax They used to make wollen clothes alsoMy father's great grand father was a tailor. He used to go from house to house making clothes. His name was James Ryan Every place he used to go he stopped a week or so there. He used to make sheeps wool in to wollen clothes with a spinning wheel. John Grace Rathluiceen has an old spinning wheel now. My father's great grand father was called a waver long ago. He was about seventy years of age
- Collector
- Margaret Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rahard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Michael Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rahard, Co. Kilkenny