School: An Scairbh (C.)
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Mhic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)of their own. It was few households at that time that there was not a spinning wheel in. As the old rhyme goes:- "Through a rock, Through a reel, Through an old spinning wheel.",
It was a custom for all the country girls to "cumhair" each one who would come with her spinning wheel and stay all day spinning in the others house and at night they used to have a dance. When they had it all spun they used to measure it and then send so many banndals to the weaver, Mr. Young of Scariff. When he had it woven he send it back in a big roll of flannel or frieze. Then the tailor who Mr Ned Curran was immediately employed to make a "bawneen" and a drawers for the old man, a petticoat and a skirt for the old woman and petticoats for the children.
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- Eileen Guilfoyle
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