School: Pres. Convent, Drogheda (roll number 851)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0679, Page 159
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- Drogheda was famous for handloom weaving about thirty years ago. There were nine big houses in the Green Lanes in which there were one or two handlooms. The man or woman of the house would be weaving the cloth. It would often take a week or ten days to do a cut of cloth a hundred or a hundred and twenty yards. Sometimes it would be demask table-cloths, rugs, and sheeting. My Mother had had to Uncles at this(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Hoey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- George's Street, Co. Louth
