1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Kilcullen (B.)

School: Kilcullen (B.)

Location:
Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Broin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 18_024

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 18_024

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Kilcullen (B.)
  2. XML Page 18_024
  3. XML “Local Tailors and Cloth Makers”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Tailors and Cloth Makers (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    very old family of tailor. They make, shirts collars, suits of clothes, over coats riding britches, and all sorts of clothes.
    In Kilcullen there is a woman who makes lace and knits stockings, with a machine.
    There is also a three tailors who make overcoats, riding britches, suits of clothes, and shirts. The material is not made by them but is all Irish tweed or Irish flannen. There are all valours, called "hair-stripe", "navy blue" and pin strips which is very thin grey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán de Fréins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    James Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Kilcullen, Co. Kildare