School: Cora Finne (C.) (roll number 12908)
- Location:
- Corrofin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Michael O' Dell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Kilvoydan, Co. Clare
- Women used to wear a hoop inside their skirts to have them flared and the skirts to look very wide. They used to wear a sort of hat called a bonnet. It was a round shape and a feather on the front of it and two jaw strings one at each side. They used wear a sort of cape called a dolman around the house.
- Long ago the women used to be wearing long wide skirts with black braid at the end of them. Shawls were commonly worn or capes and bonnets or hats with large feathers. The women used also wear black woolen stockings home(continues on next page)
