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School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)

Location:
Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Grannacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 637

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    Clothes
    The tailors do not keep cloth in their houses the people buy the cloth for them and they make it. It is shop-cloth the people use now. It was flannel the people used long ago. The people knit stockings around here. The people card and spin the wool themselves. There is a lot of linen wheels around this district. There are not many woolen wheels around here. There are are two woollen wheels round here. The people twist yarn for stocking on the woollen wheel. There are three tailors in my parish:
    1 Tailor Doherty
    Kilacurrane
    2 Tailor Judge
    Near Crossmolina
    3 Tailor O Boyle
    Crossmolina
    The tailors work in their own houses. The people wear black clothes when
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eliza Kate Lavelle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockaunbaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Lavelle
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockaunbaun, Co. Mayo