Scoil: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow

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   This woman was called Máire Sheáin and she was helped by another old woman & then when all the processes were gone through she turned the flax into thread & she made great balls of this thread & she had shelves in the kitchen & she often had the shelves filled with the balls of thread
   These were sold or some times they were sent to the weavers nearby who wove them into shirts & sheets etc.
   The sheets were very coarse but very strong and enduring & would last a life-time.
   The same could be said of the shirts.
   There was great demand for these articles in the neighbourhood & the ordinary people always used these sheets & shirts & preferred them to the finer articles especially for their endurance.

   Kilkenny men wore those shirts. The fronts had no collar but were ironed stiff. No collar was ever worn & the old people here still wear the white fronts with no collars. This is characteristic of South Kilkenny

   

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