School: Beglieve
- Location:
- Beglieve, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 039
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- Linen was woven from flax in the homes of this district. The women did most of the 'beetling'. There was a place convenient to Jemmy Clarke's. Seeorum where the linen was bleached. The linen was spread on a marshy place, and water poured on it from time to time from the adjoining river to help to the bleaching.
This linen was made into shirts, aprons, table cloths and sheets.
The women view with each other to have the whitest linen.
Sometimes the linen - that of coarser texture - was sometimes dyed blue, and
This was made into short jackets worm by the men for every day wear.
Wool from the sheep was spun into wool. Every house had its spinning wheel, but the thread was then sent to the weaver. There was a weaver(continues on next page)
- Collector
- B. Duffy
- Address
- Beglieve, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Miss Kate Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Cavan
