School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Buiríos Ó Luigheach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 023
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- (continued from previous page)long ago the clothes used to be spun locally. They make the clothes with a machine and they used to make them with a machine.
- There is only one tailor in my district namely John Kelly Curabaha Parish Borrisoleigh Co Tipperary but there is four tailors in the parish. These four tailors do not travel from house to house. They work in their own house those tailors do not spin cloth either, they only make it. There is no story about any tailor in his work. These are the implements a tailor use namely scissors a timble a needle a smoothen iron and a lap-board them are all the implements a tailor use(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crunnmhóin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Crunnmhóin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
