School: N. Colmcille, Buncrana (roll number 16752)
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 371
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- (continued from previous page)town. Some of them stock cloth but the rest you have to bring your own cloth to get whatever you want made out of it. Some people spin their own wool and send it to the weaver to get it woven into cloth. There are people who wear such cloth but not many.
The things used by the tailor are, a goose iron seven or fourteen pounds weight for pressing seams, scissors and inch tape a tailors thimble and needles and a sewing machine, and a piece of chalk.
There are many shirts made locally in the homes in the district. People send to the factories for bundles of remnants and they pick out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Colm Quigley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Hugh Quigley
- Gender
- Male
