School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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On certain days there are special clothes worn for example, black clothes at a funeral, blue at a wedding and bright clothes during the summer.
The tailor uses a lot of tools at his trade such as a scissors, needles, reels, a thimble, a tape line, a sewing machine, and Labord for pressing. He has a very large table for cutting out and pressing on and he uses very large smoothing iron called a tailor's goose.
Broad cloth was cloth of double width and it used to be called the fifty-four inch cloth. - There is only one tailor in district and his name is Johnny Harry He lives in the townland of Corleck
He works at home but sometimes he(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kate Anne Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Burns
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 100
- Address
- Lisnagunnion, Co. Monaghan