School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 270
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Glascorn
- XML Page 270
- XML “Clothes Made Locally”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There is no tailor living in this district now. The nearest tailor to us lives in Mullingar. There is a tailor who lives in the village of Castletown about five miles from here and he goes from house to house in the district to take the measure of the man he is making the suit for. He often calls to our house looking for orders. He does not stock cloth. The tailor sits on a long bench when he is working. The implements he uses are, two heavy irons, a sewing machine, a tailor's needle, chalk for marking cloth, a tailor's thimble and a scissors.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Balleagny, Co. Westmeath
