School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 25_063
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- (continued from previous page)dry. Then the women used clove it and spin it and sent it to the weaver to make sheets and ticks out of it.
When the people shears the sheep they wash the wool, tease it, cards it and spin it. They send the thread to the weaver to make flannen out of it.
When they bring it home they put soap on it and kicks it until it is thick. They used make báiníns and drawers out of it long ago but blankets are the most they use it for now.
- Collector
- Martin Grady
- Gender
- Male
