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School: Killomoran (roll number 15147)

Location:
Killomoran, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Delia Mc Kague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0285

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  1. The Local Forge (continued)

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  2. Clothes Made Locally

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    There are no tailors now in country districts. The rising generation thought that they were not making clothes up to fashion so they went to town to have their clothes tailored in the London Styles.
    Tailors are yet to be found in mountain districts where the youth are not so stylish.
    They never travel from house to house now.
    No cloth is spun or woven in the district for the past thrity years. Some old men wear the frieze coats and frieze over coats
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