School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 326
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- There is only ___ tailor in this district and he works in Carlingford.
He does not travel about from house to house but works in his own house in Carlingford.
There is also a shop beside the house in which the tailor stocks all kinds of drapery.
Cloth is not spun or woven locally but it is got from districts in Ireland where it is woven.
The type of cloth used is usually tweed.
The implements used when tailoring are a machine, and scissors.
This tailor makes shirts and sells them in the shop.
Socks and stockings, gloves and jumpers are all made locally by the women.
Thread is not spun locally and there are no spinning wheels in this district except in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Petestown, Co. Louth
