School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 114
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- (continued from previous page)Woolen Mills. Several people buy the cloth at the mills and get it made by one of the tailors.The chief kind of cloth used are tweeds and serges. The only saying I ever heard about a tailor is "a tinkers wife and a tailors wife never agree".
The implements the tailor uses are the needle, thread, thimble without any bottom, and iron for pressing called "flat iron", chalk for marking and a sewing machine. The shirts are still made in the homes of the people. The cloth used for making these is oxford shirting, flannel and flannelette. Some of the men still wear flannel jackets called "baneens" and trousers. Some of the people remember them (to be worn more as an inside garment) to be worn outside, and turned up at the waist and knotted in front but now they are worn more of an inside garment and pullovers are worn instead outside.
Socks ans stockings are knitted in every home also jumpers, cardigans, and all kinds of underwear. There is no spinning wheel in use in the District but there is a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs M. Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolacullig, Co. Cork
