School: Ceann Tuirc (roll number 9317)
- Location:
- Kinturk, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0609, Page 038
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made their clothes from linen which they manufactured them-selves .They made linen shirts, sheets, and tablecloths.men wore kind of coats called báiníns.These were made from flannel and were snow white.The women used buy wool and comb it .Next they used spin it into thread with the spinning wheel which was common in those times .It used be curred in two balls a double thread in one and a single the other. This was to suit the weavers mills who used weave it into flannel .The weavers lived in Inagh,Enistymon. Their names were Lillises.They were brothers and lived in two houses side -by side.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenletternafinny, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs James Reidy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Glenletternafinny, Co. Clare
