School: Damastown (roll number 12327)
- Location:
- Damastown, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Delia Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 304
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- There are no tailors around this locality now but there is a tailor in Ballyboughal named Paddy Swift but he does not do tailoring now. His father before him was a great tailor and used to make clothes for the old R.I.C. His wife used to help him.
There is a river this side of Springhill in the townland of Grallagh in Co Dublin called the "Tailors River" because a family of seven brothers named Beaufort lived there.
A tailor never wears his boots at his trade but he sits up on the table in his stockinged feet, his legs crossed, and an ironing board across his knees.
- Collector
- Kathleen Gilsenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Damastown, Co. Dublin
