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School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

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Knocknagree, Co. Cork
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Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 189

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  1. Local Tailors (continued)

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    men working with him and Tim Cahill had three. Some of them had apprentices and they used to go around from house to house with them. They slept in the houses in which they were working. In some houses the master tailor used to eat in the parlour. The journey men used to play tricks on the people of the house such as leaving the iron fall on the teapot. These tricks were played through spite because the journey men were not treated like their master.
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  2. Local Tailors

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    The name of the master tailor was Patrick Sullivan Ballydesmond. He had six journey men with him. They
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