School: Báinseach, Cill Chaoi (roll number 11714)
- Location:
- Kildeema, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0625, Page 324
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- (continued from previous page)fit to pick and afterwards it was cut and made into sheaves.
Then it was put into a bog hole and left there for about a fortnight. When it was taken out it was left to dry, and then it was hackled with a hackle. How this was done:-
A wooden piece about 4'x1' with a foot square of 6" pegs closely fastened in the middle of it was the hackle It was hackled by drawing the flax through these pegs which separated teh coars flag from the fine flax. The coarse flax was called tow. After being hackled it was cloved, that is it used to be pulled through a cloving tongs, which was much like a scissors, which was to take as much coarse flax as possible from the fine flax. It was then spun on a linen wheel.
- Collector
- Mary Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farrihy, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Farrihy, Co. Clare
