School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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- Dympna Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Flax is sown in early spring and grows about three and a half feet in height. In the end of September it is pulled, tied in sheaves and stooked, and is left there nine or ten days to dry. Then it is steeped in a stagnant pool for twenty days or so. It is taken up and spread on the soil to dry, and becomes brittle. It is tied up into sheaves and stooked again; next it is kiln "dried", next(continues on next page)