School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page)whitening it. They gathered bundles of the weed known as "Fóráin" (hemlock). This they dried and burned into ashes. They gathered up the ashes and made it into balls with water. They baked these balls of ashes on a griddle until they were as hard as stones. Then they put the linen down in a big pot of water and threw the balls in also and they boiled it for several hours. When the linen was taken up it was clean and white and it was spread out on the grass under the sun in order to bleach it. Some of this linen was coarse and some fine. The course linen was made into towels and the fine into sheets and pillow-slips. The old people round the district still have sheets and towels made from the home-grown flax. Shirts were also made from the flax grown locally and my grandfather told me that his uncle with whom he was reared never(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Balleagny, Co. Westmeath
