School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0070
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- About two hundred years ago all the people used to make their own clothes. There was a man named James Reardon and all the people used to bring wool to him to spin.
They would have so much woll that all the people in the house would have a coat out of it. When they would go to Mass on Sunday they would be boasting out of their coats to see which coat would be the nicest.
All the old people would do their best to keep the spinning wheel as long as they could.
- Collector
- Eva Whelan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Kylebrack West, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Ethna Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 19678
- Once upon a time there was a married couple and they had one son his father had been dead. They had one cow and they were very poor. They had made up their minds to sell the cow. The son started off to the fair one day he sold the cow, he(continues on next page)
