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School: Fairgreen

Location:
Belturbet, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 400

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 400

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  1. Clothes Made Locally

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    There are six tailors in this district. They work at their homes. The tailors do not stock cloth. Cloth is not spun and woven locally.
    The tailors use sewing machines, sicssors, tapes, needles. thread and pressing irons in their work. Shirts are made at homes. There are no accounts of shirts made from flax grown locally.
    There are no sayings or traditions connected with tailors or tailoring. Thread is not spun or woven locally. There are no spinning wheels in this district, but there were plenty of them long ago.
    When a person dies his people usually wear black
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    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English