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School: Tuairín Chathail (B.) (roll number 10392)

Location:
Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0452, Page 246

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    There are three tailors now in the district and there names are Timothy Cahill (Gneeveguilla, Kerry), Timothy Sullivan (Gneeveguilla, Kerry) and John ORourke (Maughantourig, Gneeveguilla, Kerry).
    All these tailors work in their own homes.
    The implements used by a tailor are a scissors, needle and a great number of other implements.
    There is no thread spun or cloth woven in my district now. It is the tailors that make the clothes for the local people, but the shirts are sometimes made at home of flannelette.
    There was a number of spinning wheels in my district in olden times, but there is no one there now. In olden times when a person would put a suit of clothes making, the tailor would come to the person's
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Cronin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Reaboy, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Denis Buckley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Reaboy, Co. Kerry