School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 300P
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- There are two tailors in this district.
They work in their own homes but do not stock clothes. There are no clothes woven or spun locally. The types of clothes worn locally are tweeds. There are no sayings or tradition connected with tailors or tailoring. The implements used by the tailor are a thimble, needle, scissors and sewing machine. Shirts are not made in the homes, socks and stockings are knitted locally but the thread is purchased in shops. There is about one spinning-wheel in this district.
There are special clothes worn at the death of a relative. Men wear hard hats and women dress in black.
- Informant
- James King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lord's Park, Co. Tipperary
