School: Cloncovid
- Location:
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Savage
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 232
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cloncovid
- XML Page 232
- XML “Old Crafts”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Not more than a hundred years ago linen was manufactured in this district although there is scarcely anything now in existence to show that this was the case. Flax was grown locally and bleaching was carried out in the various localities. One bleaching place was at Grousehall, near Drumhouna station and another over at Lacken near Legaginney School. The linen thread was made into cloth and made into sheets table-cloths etc. Of course it was only the well to do farmers who carried on this craft.
Wool was taken from sheep, washed, combed - dyed, spun into thread but there is no account of it locally being woven into cloth. The only remains of such(continues on next page)
