School: Teamhair, Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Taur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Súillleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 481
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- Long ago the people dyed the cloth with the juice of plants. Log-wood was used to dye the cloth black. Copperas was used to dye the cloth brown. Sorrel was boiled with black-berries to dye the cloth black. The sorrel was boiled also with the red flower of fuschia to dye the cloth red. Sorrel is a plant that grows on the brow of ridges of potatoes.
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- Collector
- Eileen Angland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs K. Shin
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Glennakeel South, Co. Cork
