School: Lappen (roll number 2020)
- Location:
- An Lapán, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ruanadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 205
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- In the homes candles were made of tallow or bees wax & resin. The inside of rushes were used as wicks.
- Jack McQuillan was the local tailor & had his home where Paddy McCarron's home is now in Garron. He went around the houses & stopped for perhaps a week while tailoring in the homes. He made swallow tailed coats & breeches. Mary Breen was a dressmaker. She had no home & went from house to house & did the sewing.
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- Informant
- Mrs Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Cionn Aird, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Bread was made from flour & grated potatoes. Crowds of men and women gathered where(continues on next page)
