School: Coolavin (roll number 10422)
- Location:
- Monasterredan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 265
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- In the townland of Monasteraden there is but one tailor, he being sufficient to meet the needs of the surrounding villages. This tailor is an expert one and is never a week idle.
He stocks no cloth but when any person desires a suit of clothes it is usual to go to a shop and get a piece of material. This is brougham to the tailor who turns it into the garment required. When at work the tailor usually sits on a table.
Very little socks or stockings are knitted locally owing to the low cost of factory manufactured ones. but during the long winter's nights the women usually knit for pastime.
There is a considerable number of spinning wheels in the neighbourhood but many of them are not in working order and in fact parts of several of them are missing.
Usually on the death of a near relative people go in mourning by wearing black clothes. At weddings it is customary to wear some bright colour as blue or white. On St Patrick's Day some people like to dress in green.
- Collector
- Maura Cryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- William Cryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Sligo
