School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)

Location:
Uachtar Ard, Co. na Gaillimhe
Teacher:
An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 308

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    also sheets out of Oughterard linen.
    Most of the farmers around Oughterard wear (the)
    home-knitted stockings made out of home-spun thread. They get the wool off the sheep and make it into thread by dressing it with sweet oil and carding it into little rolls about twelve or eighteen inches long. They then spin it on the spinning wheel and twist it to make it right for knitting.
    There are several people around Oughterard that have spinning wheels. Mrs. Mac Donagh of Drimmahon has one.
    Black clothes are usually worn for a year after a near relative dies.
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    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Joyce
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Uachtar Ard, Co. na Gaillimhe