School: Timahoe (roll number 14486)
- Location:
- Tigh Mochua, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: R. O' Byrne
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- (continued from previous page)It was then carded and spun on wheels. When it was suitable for making bed ticks and shirts.
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- Collector
- Lizzie Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Garraí Glas, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- James Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- An Garraí Glas, Co. Laoise
- Hay Rake
And he remembers going to look at a hay ray when he was a chap - the first time he saw one.
Harvesting operations were done those times with the reaping hook and tied with the hands; then drawn into the haggard and threshed on the barn floor with a flail and carried out on a windy day. It was(continues on next page)
