School: Moyvore
- Location:
- Moyvore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 470
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- (continued from previous page)for sewing, smoothing iron for pressing the clothes called a "goose", and a large timble and needles and thread.
There are three spinning wheels in this district. The people do not spin the thread in this locality new, but it was done in former times.
In former times, flax was grown in this locality. It was manufactured into linen by the local people. They made linen shirts and sheets and towels. Socks and stockings and jumpers are knitted locally.
Mary Teresa Murtagh, Piercetown, Ballymacargy.
The names of the people who have the spinning wheels are:
Miss Reilly, Willamstown, Ballynacargy
Mss Grennon, Ballymagleavy, Ballynacargy
Mrs Keane, Baltacken, Moyvore
- Collector
- Mary Teresa Murtagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Piercetown, Co. Westmeath
