School: Termonfeckin (roll number 16209)
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 042
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- (continued from previous page)their own clothes.
When at work the tailor uses thread, a needle, pins, scissors and cloth. When the tailor is at work he takes of his shoes and sits up on table. In this district shirts were made long ago.
At present socks and stockings are knitted.
There are no spinning wheels in this district to day but were long ago. The spinning wheels were used for weaving wollen thread.
No special clothes were ever worn on feast days but at the death of a relative people go in mourning by wearing black clothes.
- Collector
- Mary Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Peter Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth
