School: An Bóthar Buí (C.) (roll number 16397)
- Location:
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0354, Page 321
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- (continued from previous page)and girls made shirts by spinning flax into thread on a spinning wheel, and then the thread was taken to a weaver and he wove it into the material to make shirts for the men. When they made the shirts, there was no collar on them, but they put a band around their necks when they had them on. There were white fronts on the shirts worn on Sundays.
The was a spinning wheel in almost every house long ago. People used to keep a few sheep in order to have the wool. The wool was washed and sent to a carding mill to be carded(continues on next page)
