Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.  From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.  Other families associated with same Brooks, Lannins and Millers of Dromreagh and Coolculaghta.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

March 1862, Meeting Flax Society, Colonel Bernard (Bandon), Colonel Beamish, Captain Sealy RN, JF Maguire, Mayor of Cork, Messrs W Thurley, D Cunningham, W Sheehy (Skibbereen), Edward Smyth (Knox Mills), W Dowman, Offer by Peter Riordan, Keilgane, Castleisland to buy Scutching Machine, Discussion of Rowen of Belfast new Scutching machine hint of past failures. proposed meeting with Sir Robert Peel ‘The Organ of the Irish Government’.

The Buachallán Bawn, Spinning Duet, probably pre 1800 sung by girls spinning flax or wool

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Parish of Durrus, Bantry (1829-1907), Parents died of Cholera in…