School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 488
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- Tailors used to travel from one district to another and spend a week or even longer in a townland. They used to sleep in the house of the person who had work to give them. A tailor always took with him a board about one yard long and about 4 or 5 inches wide, this they called a lah-board(phonetic pronuciation). The first sewing machine Martin Moylan heard of was in 1867 a lady visitor came to his house and told his mother that it sewed very nicely, but it was years after when she saw one.
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- Martin Moylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyallinan South, Co. Limerick
