School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567D, Page 01_068
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- (continued from previous page)these curls. The young girls used to wear coloured shawls which looked beautiful.Patchwork Quilts
The people made all their own shawls and beautiful white quilts and patch work quilts. They crochetted little squares and then sewed them together to make a white quilt. To make a patch work quilt they used to cut square pieces of different coloured cloth and then they sewed them together.Rag-Dolls
The people made rag dolls and timber dolls to amuse themselves. They gathered a lot of rags and rolled a big piece of material around them and this made the dolls body. They made the other parts the same but shaped them differently. They painted the face. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ruby Millett
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Morrissey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
