School: Fothar (roll number 16903)

Location:: Faugher, Co. Donegal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 87

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There are about seven tailors in this parish now. The tailors about here work at home. Home spun clothes are not worn now. Among the tools of a tailor are scissors, thimbles, irons, sewing machines. Stockings are knitted in almost every cottage in this parish. The wool is shorn off the sheep and spun on a spinning wheel. Some people wear black clothes if there is a death in their family.
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Topics
1. objects
  clothing and accessories (~2,403)
Language

English
Collector
Patrick Gallagher
Gender

Male
Address

Faugher, Co. Donegal

Informant
Ellen Gallagher
Gender

Female
Age

49
Address

Faugher, Co. Donegal
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There are not very many tailors in this parish. Each tailor keeps his own cloth in his shop. It is shop wool nearly all the tailors sell. The tailors uses

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