School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- An Ghadaigh Dhubh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 370
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“Long ago weavers were not very common but the people of the country would weave their own clothes at home.”
(continued from previous page)thickening mill when it would come back it would be ready for the tailor.
Long ago in olden times you would not have to go to the tailor but the tailor would come to you. Whenever he would come to you he had to be kept until he would be finished. The women would make thread for him out of lint. He would charge five shillings for making a suit of clothes. There was a tailor in Tandergee and his name was John Davy. There was another in Carndonagh and his name was Patrick Doherty.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magheramore, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- John Toland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Magheramore, Co. Dhún na nGall