Connemara Wool Spinning

Title

Connemara Wool Spinning

Description

A woman working a spinning wheel stands outside a partially white washing thatched cabin. A man wearing a cap and knitted scarf stands in the doorway. A basket and a shovel are on the ground close to the spinning wheel. Wool spinning was seen as one of the few possible profitable occupations in Connemara where sheep could be reared on the mountains.

Publisher

NUI Galway Library

Date

1894

Contributor

Welch, Robert John (1859-1936) (Photographer)

Format

nonprojected graphic
285x365mm

Type

StillImage
black-and-white positive

Coverage

Ireland, West of
Connemara
Europe--Ireland--Galway
53.4522534885, -9.5632015727
19th century