School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- XML “Spinning and Weaving”
- XML “Flax”
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- Flax was largely grown in some places. Around and made into linen. There is an old ruin of a linen mill about a mile from the school. It is on the side of a gently sloping hill that was used for bleaching the linen. Some say that it was only a bleaching house, a shack the linen was sent to it to be washed in the water near by and bleached in out on the green grass.
Sheets, towels, tolie, clothes, pillow cases, shirts, collars, too were made from the homemade linen.