School: Cormaddyduff
- Location:
- Cormaddyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghiolla Sheanain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 302
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- There are a good many tailors living in the local towns. They work at home but long ago tailors went around from house to house in an ass and cart and made suits for the men. A man named Kelly from Garryross went around in this manner. He hand-sewed all, because there were no machines that time. The material used that time was frieze which was homespun from the wool of their own sheep. At that time there was a spinning wheel in every home and in our townland there are the remains of three such spinning wheels.
Long ago the local girls gathered in C. Brady's granary of Cormaddyduff in the winter nights and scutched the flax and made linen articles.
Shirts were made in the homes long ago out of linen(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Enagh, Co. Cavan
