School: Cill Mháille (C.), Inis (roll number 14469)
- Location:
- Kilmaley, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Asaoid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0608, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)286taken and steeped in a bog-hole and left there for 10 days.(Strange to say nobody ever stole flax for it is said the person who stole was supposed to have the smell of it from his corpse when dead). It was taken up then, and spread out to bleach and dry. It was broken then with Tuairgíns, scutched with a scrutch, and cloven with a cloving tongs .It was then hackled with hackles, spun into thread. The thread was boiled, bittled,and put out on a field to bleach. Next it was wound up into balls, and then warped. Next it was sent to Pat Hunt, Jack Larhen, or Thady Meaney to be woven. It was boiled and bleached again, before being made into shirts.
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