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School: Teach Mhic Conaill (roll number 15614)

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Taghmaconnell, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Tuathaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 103

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    cloth out of it.
    If a person wanted a suit of clothes made the tailor would go round to the house and make the suit. Then they would pay him so much for making the suit. The type of cloth they used for suits was frieze and corduroy. The implements the tailor used were a scissors, a lap board, a needle and thread and a machine. There were tailors over in Culmore, namely James Foley, Malachy Keogh and Martin Curley.
    Written by
    Rosie Moore
    Chapel Street
    Taughmaconnell
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosie Moore
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Taghmaconnell, Co. Roscommon