School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 324
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- There are no tailors now in this district, the nearest one lives in Carlingford.
He works in his own home. He does not travel from house to house when required.
The tailor stocks cloth. It is not spun or woven locally.
Some people do not wear clothes made from such cloth.
The types of cloth used are Tweeds and Serges.
In this parish some people make all their own clothes only their coats. All the men get their suits made with the tailor. His name is Mr Fancy Delaney. Long ago there was a woman lived in Muckla. Her name was Betty the tailor.
The reason she was called Betty the tailor was, because her husband was a tailor, and she used to help him to make the clothes, and she would go round and deliver the clothes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Petestown, Co. Louth
