School: Árd Aitinn
- Location:
- Ardattin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 171
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- In this school district there is not one tailor but formerly there were three or four. Flynns and Foleys were the tailors. They sometimes travelled to farmers houses to make clothes but worked a good deal at home.
Cloth was not woven in the area but wool was taken to a mill on the Slaney in the parish of Clonegal at a spot called Kitcarry. It was made into a coarse cloth which people got made into clothes by the local tailor. This mill still exists and blankets of a coarse kind are made in it.
Stockings are now knitted for men only and in only a few houses. There is no such thing as a spinning wheel.
Black clothes are worn by women when a relative dies and men wear a crepe band or diamond on their sleeve.
