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School: Dún na nGall (roll number 2252)

Location:
Donegal, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
E. E. Oldfield
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 023

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 023

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    There are four tailors in the Donegal district. Mr. David Hanna, Mr. Peter Meehan, Mr. Mick Harvey, and Mr. Johnny Henderson. They work at their homes and do not travel from house to house formerly. Some of the tailors stock clothes and others do not.
    Cloth is spun by Mr. Joe O’Donnell.
    Local people wear clothes made from this cloth. The tyles of cloth used are those woven on hand looms and the colourings are usually browns, grays, greens, and blue mixtures. The tailor used scissors, tapes, pins, needles, chalk, rules, sewing-machines, tailors-goose, or smoothing iron.
    Shirts are not made in
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Slavin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    72
    Address
    Donegal, Co. Donegal