School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Buiríos Ó Luigheach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 025
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- (continued from previous page)home. The thread is not spun locally, the people wear the clothes he makes. The implements he use are a needle timble scissors. The people make the clothes in the shop and gave them to him for to make them. The women knit stockings also. They use to spin thread before in the house. There was a spinning wheel at Tom Droneys Killamoyne long ago. They use to have special suits of clothes for going to feasts
- There are two tailors in my district one of them work in their home and the other travel from house to house making clothes for the people in the house the people used to wear(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Small
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gort na Cranncha Mór, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- William Small
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gort na Cranncha Mór, Co. Thiobraid Árann
