In the memoirs of my great aunt Alice Flynn Tucker, she writes about my great grandmother: "My mother's name was Bridget Keaveny [Flynn]. She was educated in a girls' school in Cornocloy where manners, carriage, and all that goes to make a lady were taught. Mother's father was a weaver, so her work was to thread the shuttles for him. Her father, Thomas Keaveny, came from Glen Carr as an orphan when twelve years of age to Glenfarne to work for a weaver, Mathew Tomson, and learned the trade from him. He used to make linsey-woolsey suits for men and linen table cloths and sheets. The tablecloths had a figure woven into them."
The small town trade of a weaver was different than the large factory weaving in a city, but just the bits and pieces I have learned make me curious to know more about the weaver's life.
Thanks for the definitions. It makes Fan-a-Winnow a more meaningful song to me now.

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