School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 022
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- There are one tailor in my district and his name is John Kelly Cullokill Borrisoleigh. He works at his own home. He keeps a stock of clothes. The cloth is bought in shops for making clothes. The people ware them of such a type.
- Collector
- Mary Younge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Corbett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- They are no tailor in the district long ago they were tailors but they were none now. Some of them used to work at their own houses and more of them used to travell from house to house making clothes in the farming house. They are no cloth spun locally(continues on next page)
