Scoil: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (uimhir rolla 14672)
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- Cnoc na Góla, Co. an Longfoirt
- Múinteoir: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)flax. Sticks are put around the fire and over it, in order to protect the flax from it.
After that it is pounded with washstaffs. It is then "scutched", that is, a stalk, which is composed of a "boss" about one foot long seven inches wide, two inches thick. A scutching handle, is about twenty inches long, four inches broad, and as thin as the back of a knife. The "stock" is about three feet high, seven inches wide, and one inch thick.
The girls would leave the scutch across the top of it, and beat the bark of it.
It is then hackled. That is, a board six foot, by nine inches, by two inches. There were three bunches of pins six inches long, course, fine and medium.
The hackler would draw the flax through the pins and leave the tow after him.
A man used to go about making a living at that work he was called(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
- Bailitheoir
- John Brett
- Inscne
- Fireann
