School: Doohamlet
- Location:
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 306
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- (continued from previous page)In olden days they would make their own cloth by weaving and spinning. The socks and stockings are knitted locally, and them that had sheep could get the sheep shorn, and could get their own wool made for knitting, and they also can get their own blankets made.
At other times the tailors used to go around the house and make the clothes for the people of the house. They would buy the stuff, generally Corduroy and send for the tailor. He would come and sew them in the houses.
There were no sewing machines in those days. There was a tailor named Patrick Martin who lived in Corderrybane. He used to go from house to house in his young days, then he got a job in the Workhouse making clothes for the inmates, but he had to sew(continues on next page)
