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School: Punt Abhann (Pontoon)

Location:
Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Anastasia Ní Chonaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 420

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    these things when he is sewing. There is not a bit of home weaved cloth in this district now because there is no weaver in the district.
    The people wear their best clothes when they are getting married in this parish. Long ago the old people never needed a tailor because they spun their own wool an cloth. When they had the cloth made they dyed it with a brown moss off the stones.
    The clothes which they made or wore was woollen or linen. Now a days people never spin or weave but buy their own clothes in the shop.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Úna Nic Éil
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo