School: Clunelly (roll number 15953)
- Location:
- Tromaty, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)purpose of making the wool fine. When they wool was teased fine, with the back of these cards it was then made into rolls. Then the rolls were spun on a spinning-wheel and made into yarn. It was then made into ounces on a reel.
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- Collector
- Mary Shiels
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cross, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Thatching
In olden days all the houses of the district were thatched. The man who was thatching, first of all, got a long ladder which was long enough to go on the roof. When the old thatch, that had been a covering before now, had all been scraped off the near thatch was then put on. The thatched houses along the west coast of Ireland are often tied with ropes to protect them from the storm, because the wind there would lift the thatch from the roofs of the houses.