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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0817, Page 106

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    There are two tailors in Kilcormac and one in Cloghan and two in Ferbane. Clothes were made long ago locally sush as shirts. Some people used to sow the flax and make shirts out of the home made linen them selves. There is one spinning wheel in the parish but there were more in it long ago. The tailors in this district do not stock material but they send
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Guinan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lumcloon, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs Guinan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Lumcloon, Co. Offaly