School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tíne, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Then it would be taken out of the bog-hole and spread out for bleaching in a field. After that it was gathered up again in bundles and dried over the fire to make it brittle for hackling. When hackled the women would spin it with a linen wheel, and then send it to the weaver to be woven into linen cloth. Broderick's have a linen table-cloth made by their grandmother 60 or 70 years ago.
- Collector
- Kathleen Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tíne, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Anne Broderick
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Doire an Fhrinsigh, Co. na Gaillimhe