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School: Currans (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 4459)

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Currans, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Daniel Kerrisk
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 262

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    There are but two tailors now in this district. They are John Griffin, Meanus, Farranfore and Ned Day, [?] Gortatlea. They work at their homes. They do not ravel from house to house as formerly. The former stocks some cloth not all and the latter none, cloth is not spun nor woven locally. The cloth generally worn here is tweed and serge.
    The implements the tailor uses are thread, needle, thimble, chalk, scissors, smoothing-Iron, lap-board + tape.
    Shirts are made in the homes. Cotton, linen, flannelette, flannel, baffety. There are no accounts of shirts made from flax grown locally. Socks and stockings are made in the homes but the thread is bought in town and not spun locally. There are no spinning-wheels in this district.
    Special types of cloth are worn on certain occasions, for instance
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jerry Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilfallinga, Co. Kerry