School: Bán-Tír (B.) (roll number 2803)

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1. Clothes Made Locally (continued)

   

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   wove cloth, and made all the clothes for her children when going to school. Mrs Connell of Shronebeha, Banteer had a spinning wheel, and was ever ready to lend it to a neighbour. Mrs Mary Cahill of Kilmacrane, Banteer had her own spinning wheel, and spun thread for socks up to the time of her death a few years ago.
   Mrs Cronin of Banteer told me, that she remembers a woman coming to their house, to make thread for half-a-crown per week, with food. The Blackwater Woollen Mills, at "Rosnalee", Banteer, were worked up to about thirty years ago, by a man named Crowley. The finest of tweed was spun and woven here. Several people of this locality would take their own wool to this mill, and pay to have it spun for them, or simply exchange the wool for cloth already woven. The usual first prize for "Youths Race", confined to parish, at the famous "Banteer Sports" of the old days, was a length of tweed containing material for two suits, presented by the late Mr Crowley, of Blackwater Mills. The writer, and his brothers often won this much coveted prize, and the clothes were made locally by James Wilkinson, of Banteer. The mills are now in ruin, having been destroyed by local residents during the Black & Tan trouble, owing to a rumour that the building was to be occupied by a regiment then stationed at Kanturk, Co Cork.

   

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   J Barry

   Gender

   Unknown

   Address

   Banteer, Co. Cork

   Collector

   J Sheehan

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Mary Cronin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   69

   Address

   Banteer, Co. Cork