School: Ceann Locha (roll number 11749)
- Location:
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Matilda Bolster
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 402
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- There are three tailors in the district. They work in their homes.
The tailor sells the cloth for making the suits.
Cloth is not spun and woven in the district now.
The tailor uses a sewing machine, an iron, a pair of scissors, a thimble, a chair and a table when working.
Shirts are made in the homes.
Socks and stockings are knitted. sometimes the wood is spun in homes.
Black clothes are woven on a Funeral Day, and white clothes are usually worn on a Wedding Day.
- Collector
- Matilda Bolster
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
