School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 457
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- There is only one tailor in this district. He lives in Slane his name is Paddy McGuinness. He is a doum man, he works in his own house. It takes him about a fourtnight to make a suit of clothes. When a person goes in to get clothes made, they have to write what they want made down on a slate. He does not stock clothes.
Cloth is not spun or woven locally. The people used grow flax in this district long ago, and sell it to the miller that was in Rossin mill. The miller scutched it and sent it to England in the form of tow in order to make linen from it.
There is a mill in Navan. Claytons is the name of it. Some people send in sheep's wool, in return they receive a few yards f tweed. A lot of people knit socks and jumpers in this district. The thread is not spun locally, it is bought in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Marry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Balfeddock, Co. Meath
