School: Louth (B.) (roll number 1553)
- Location:
- Louth, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Randles
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 145
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- The Shoemaker:
There are four shoemakers in this district, two of them live in the village and the other two live in two diggerent townlands. They mend boots and shoes and footballs and they make a pair of boots when one order them. They work from ten oclock in the morning until eleven oclock at night.
The Tailor:
There are six tailors in this district, four of them live in the village and the other two live outside the village. All of them stock their own cloth, on of them goes around selling suit lenghts to the people, the tailor uses an iron, a horseshoe, a machine. thread and alot of needles, a scissors. He uses the iron for pressing the cloth, the horseshoe for leaving the hot iron on, the machine the thread and needles for sewing and the scissors for cutting the cloths.
- Collector
- Séan Ó Liondáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Louth, Co. Louth
