School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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- (continued from previous page)stuff. The old proverb says "it takes nine tailors to make a man
In the days long ago when the tailor would travel from house to house he would be referred to as "whip-the-cat".
- There are hardly any tailors in this. There is a good tailors in Corvalley and his name is Tommy Mc Eneaney and he does a very good trade. He makes the clothes in his own house. He stocks every sort of clothes for example: suit lengths cloth for over coats and other clothes. Cloth is not spun in this country but it is spun and woven in Donegal. That is the way most of the people of Donegal Gaeltact people make money for themselves and many people in those areas do hardly any work but spinning and weaving. The people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Owen Mc Cabe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
