School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 200
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- There are only two tailors working in this district at presant time.
They do not go about working in other houses as tailors did in olden times. They do not stock cloth but often get suit lengths home from the mill for customers.
Flannelette suits are spun and woven locally. A good many people wear suits spun and woven locally. The only cloth spun and woven locally is flannelette.
The implements used by a tailor are a sewingmachine a scissors a Saps thimble a needle a smoothingitoton a lapboard and a tape.
Shirts are made in most country house.
The coth shirts are made from Flannelette which is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamon Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
