School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 159
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- The tailor uses a lapboard with which he presses the clothes & he uses an iron for pressing also. Brigid Fitzgerald Gowran knits socks etc & sells them to the people. People use machines in their own homes.
- Collector
- Mary Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Dooley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- There was a man in Gowran long ago named Mr White. He used to weave thread & make clothes in his home. He had the instruments & people used to get a lend of it.
