School: Béal an Dá Chab (roll number 14225)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd O Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 320
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- There is a tailor in this district, and he cuts the suits and measures them. He doesn't sew them, but he has three tailors working for him. They do not go round from house to house as formerly when required.
This tailor stocks and sells cloth, but the tailors who work for him do not.
Cloth is not spun and woven locally, but it was some years ago. People do not wear clothes made of such cloth, because they buy them in shops. CLoth made of linen and cotton are the types of cloth used at the present time.
The following are the implements which the tailor uses in his work:- a Sewing-machine;(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore West, Co. Cork
