School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Windfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0060
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- There are four tailors in this district. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Horan in Ballygar and Mr. Fahy and Mr. McGrath in Mountbellew. They stock cloth, serge and tweed. The cloth is not spun and woven locally. People do not wear cloth.
The tailor uses a sewing machine.
There are no sayings or stories connected with tailors.
There are no accounts of shirts made from flax grown locally.
Socks and stockings are made locally in the homes. The thread is not spun locally.
There are about twenty spinning wheels in the district.
Black clothes are worn at a death.
Blue clothes at a marriage.
No special kind of clothes are worn on feast days.
- Collector
- Bridie Crowe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cloonavihony, Co. Galway
