School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)

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1. Making Linen from Flax (continued)

   

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   toe. The long flax and the toe are then made into rolls called hanks or skus, and spun on the wheel, known as the linen wheel. The thread is then put on timber spindles. There was a weaver in Milleen named Richard Scanlan, the thread was sent to him and he made fine and coarse linen out of it. Mrs. Nolan of Glounakeel, is the only woman in this parish, who is spinning flax.

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2. Limerick

   

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   My heart wanders back to that sweet little spot.
   Tis enshrined in my memory today
   The Shannon, the falls and the Corraghgour cot,
   The sweetest on earth, I shall say.
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   That sweet little garden, o'er looking that stream.
   As it ever flows down to the sea
   Where the thrush in the morning, that songster supreme
   Warbles loud in his rapture and glee.
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   That minstrel of nature, seemed singing the praise,
   Though its glory is faded and gone,
   Of that hallowed spot, though its halcyon days
   Are faded o'er times dreary span.
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