School: Tierlahood
- Location:
- Tirlahode Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhrionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 231
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- There are two tailors in this district. "Tom the tailor" and "Terry the Tailor". Tom travels from house to house as required and Terry sews in his own home. The tailor does not stock cloth but he keeps patterns and will get the cloth and make the suit from the pattern chosen.
Cloth is not spun or woven in this district now. But it was in ancient times. The types of cloth used are Irish tweeds woven in the Irish factories.
Here is a song about a tailor -
A penny for a cotton ball,
A halfpenny for a needle,
Therse the way the money goes,
And pop goes the weasel.
2
I walked into a tailors shop,
and picked up a needle.
I stuck it in the tailors huanp,
And pop goes the weasel.
The implements the tailor uses are= scissors, thimble, sewing machine, goose=iron for pressing.
Shirts are not made now at home as Irish manufactured shirts can be bought so cheaply. The material used is Irish linen and poplin. I have heard that shirts were made from flax in this townland.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lucy P. Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghagibney, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs L. Tierney
- Gender
- Female
