School: Breac-chluain
- Location:
- Brackloon South, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 051
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is one tailor in our district. He always works at home in his workshop. He does not stock material. His customers buy material in Ballyhaunis and take it to him. No cloth is spun or woven here now but some was, three or four years ago. No people in this district wear home-spun materials. A tailor uses a sewing machine, two pressing irons, a needle, a thimble, a card of soap, a basin of cold water, a clean cloth, and clothes brush and a basting ripper. Women who are sewers make shirts and trousers for boys at home. They buy the cloth for the shirts in town and they make the trousers out of men's old trousers. Some women knit socks(continues on next page)
