School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 81
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- (continued from previous page)of spinning wheels about here. After a death in a house some people wear black.
- There are about four or five tailors in this parish at present and they all work in their own homes. They keep a good supply of cloth of different varieties which they buy from the factories. There some homespun suits worn in this district but not as many as in olden times. The tailor's tools are a machine for sewing, needles for hemming, tape for measuring, chalk for marking, etc. They used to make shirts in houses long ago, but now all the shirts that are worn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John C. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Portnablahy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- M. Mullen
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
