School: Cillín (Portomna)
- Location:
- Killeen South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Dúnadhaighe
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- There is only one tailor in this district.
He works at home. He does not stock cloth. When people are getting anything made, they buy the cloth themselves and brings it to the tailor. Long ago the people used to weave and spin that own cloth but now they buy it in the shops.
The types of clothes that are worn now are not similar to the kind of a few centuries ago.
Long ago the women used to wear shawls and bonnets but now they wear coats and
hats.
The very old people still wear shawls.
A tailor usually works on a bench. The implements which uses are, :-
sewing machine, scissors, thimble, gooce,needle and thread. Some people make shirts at home but they do not make the cloth locally.
The most of the people knit their socks and stockings. They do not spin the thread.
There are no spinning wheels in this district.
People usually wear black clothes when anybody dies belonging to them.
They usually wear bright clothes at weddings.
- Collector
- Mary Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeen South, Co. Galway
