School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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- (continued from previous page)if Fox would box him in a field.the challenge was refused. Fox became an officer in the R & B afterwards. Sometime later a nephew of Belshs, who was a head constable in the R&B came into contact with Fox in the same district. Fox was moved to another district.
- They used to weave their own linen in the houses long ago. They bleached it first. There is a place down in [?] called "The Bleach" where in olden times they bleached the linen.
The linen was bleached by the side of a river in a nearby place. The water was poured over it from time to time to help the bleaching process. The linen was made into shirts, sheets, table-cloths etc in the home.
Some of the unbleached linen was sent to the blue-dyer, & dyed blue. This was of coarse texture, & was called "drogged" (Droguet) & was made into jackets.
Blankets were made from wool of the sheep.(continues on next page)
