School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 033
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- At the present day there are but few tailors in this locality as ready made clothes can be procured cheaper than those made by the tailors but in ancient times there were many tailors in this locality. Long ago tailors with their apprentices travelled about from house to house making clothes. They often remained for over a week in houses where there was a large family making clothes for them but this custom has completely died away. They made men's and boy's clothes from frieze which was manufactured from wool which was spun into thread and woven into cloth by the weaver. At the present day very few tailors in the country stock cloth but long ago every tailor had a little shop in which he sold all kinds of materials. There are but few spinning wheels in this manufacturing from flax is a lost art in this part of the country. Tailors in olden times were very poetic and I have often heard some of their effusions which appeared in the public ballads at that time.
- Collector
- Joan O' Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Eugene O' Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cooldorragha, Co. Cork
