School: St. Anne's (C.)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Kelly
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- About fifty or sixty years ago the old people washed their clothes by the river-side. They brought their clothes and a tub and a beetle. Then they lit a fire and boiled the water. Then they put the clothes into a tub and beetled them. After they washed the clothes they put them out to dry. Then they washed the children. A number of women gathered together for the washing but this was only done in the Summer time,
- Collector
- Jean Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corkish, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs John Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rakeevan, Co. Cavan