School: Clochar na Trócaire, Buirgheas Uí Luighdheach (roll number 3486)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Oilibhéir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 088
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- There are three tailors in my native town. The names of these tailors are Mr. Carroll, Mr. Hammond and Mr. Shanahan.
These tailors always work at home. Long ago the tailors used to go round from house to house when required. Formerly the people of this locality used get the wool woven in the Genny mills in Latteragh, and then they got the tailor to make the clothes. In those days there were no machines. It took a week to make a suit of clothes by hand. When the tailor was making the clothes he stayed in the house where he was working.
Nowadays the tailor stocks the cloth. He buys the cloth from some big firm in Dublin or Cork. The implements used by the tailor are(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Younge
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
