School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 317
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- There is one tailor, Mr Jim Cullinan, in this district. He never travels from house to house, as tailors of old did: he does all the work at home.
He never stocks cloth, but there is a draper-shop where he gets all his stuff, next door.
Tweed & serge are the kinds of cloth used while he works with a machine, thimble, needle & thread.
When flax was grown here, people used make their own shirts. Stockings were also made in the house. All are bought in the shops now.
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- Collector
- Patrick Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Wm. Walshe from Crochtabeg used to spin & weave cloth & was, therefore, called "William the Weaver".
Many people used to grow flax & make shirts & sheets for their own use. Sometimes they sold the flax.
Everyone used to knit their own stockings - poor people for their own use & also to sell them.
Maddigan's of Graigue have a spinning-wheel. White is worn at weddings.
