School: Corlatty Carroll
- Location:
- Corlattycarroll, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Jas. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)at Bailieboro: and woollen good, and blankets, and serges, were made at it. It closed about thirty five years ago and all the machinery was bought by a woollen firm in Ballymena and the roof was taken off and sold also. All the remains to be seen now are the ruins. The cloth used for mens clothes at present are blue serge and Irish tweed.
The tailor implements are Tape measure, A large Scissors, for cutting cloth, A small Scissors, A lap Board, on which he pressed the cloth. A large Iron called the tailors 'Goose' for pressing the cloth. Needles, Thimbles, Chalk.
