School: Turlough, Béal an Chloga (roll number 14872)

Location:
Turlough, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Áine, Bean Uí Éalaidhe
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    There are no tailors in this parish now. ...

    There are no tailors in this parish now. There was one tailor in it long ago though. He was a very tasty tailor so they called him "O'Byrne the tailor of taste". He used to go around from house to house selling cotton and doing the work. He died a very old man. He was a very good man when he was young. He used not drink nor smoke. He was born a tinker.
    He started drinking and he spent all his money. He used to say "A tinker I was born and a tinker I will die". He was a cousin to the blacksmith that was in Bellharbour, Peter O'Brien. He copied the smith's example.
    There are no spinning wheels in the parish now. The people knit jumpers and stockings here. Most people buy the shop thread. Others send wool to a factory in Galway and get thread made out of it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Linnane
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Linnane
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Ballyhehan, Co. Clare