School: Belturbet (B)

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1. Potatoes (continued)

   

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   would bury him although he was not dead. They used to boil a big pot of Indian meal and every person would get a small pot full. This was done at seven o'clock.

   

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2. Clothes

   

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   There are tailors in town now and they work in their own homes but this was not the way long ago. Long ago they went from house to house and made as much clothes as the people wanted often they stayed a week in the same house. Sometimes tailors stock cloth of their own. The tools a tailors uses are needle and threads, sowing machine, chalk, square, goose, tape, scissors. A needle and thread for sewing, and chalk for marking the

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Rudden

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilconny, Co. Cavan