School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 139
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- The types of cloth that people in this district make shirts with are, cotton, linen, flannel and flannelette.
- At weddings different clothes are worn. There is only one feast day in the year on which special clothes are worn and it is on St Patrick Day. There are green clothes worn on that day.
- Socks and stockings are made locally. The thread is not spon in the homes.
- Collector
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Julia Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
