School: Cúl Mín, Inis
- Location:
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- Collector
- Michael Malony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Malony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Long ago the people make their own starch. They would scrape potatoes into a basin and then get a piece of flaxen sheet and put the crotal into it and squeeze the water and the fine stuff out of it. Then they would strain the water out of the fine stuff and dry it and wash clothes with it.