School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)

Location:
Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 040

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 040

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  1. Long ago people wore different kind of clothes towards those which people of this century wear. The men wore corduroy trousers which the made themselves. When a man was getting married he got a home woven and home made linen shirt, and a homemade frieze coat which as long as he lived he had it. They wove the frieze themselves. They also wore swallow tailed coats which were coats going down to the calf of their legs.
    The women wore home made goods also, such as red flannel petticoats and also drugget ones, those were a kind of flannel. They dyed them purple(?) and black with heather blossoms or copprice(?) which was in hard green little lumps, and both mixed made it puce with a black stripe.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Mc Garry
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Lear, Co. Leitrim