School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Liag, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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- (continued from previous page)used to go round and sew in every house. The tailor stocks cloth for men's suits. The implements used by a tailor are, Sewing Machine, Scissors, Iron, or "Goose" Iron, Needles, thread, chalk, and thimble. The nearest place to here where yarn is spun and cloth woven is Athlone where there is at present a two Woollen Mills employing many hundred hands. Local people wear Athlone tweed. Here are two old sayings about tailors.
1. "It takes sixteen tailors to make a man"
2. "A tailors rests himself standing up".
Socks and stockings are knitted nearly in every household. I know of three spinning wheels in our district Mrs Ned Farrell, Tullyvrane, Mrs Farrell Rathcline and Mrs Mullooly Killinanure. Black is generally worn at a funeral of a near relative. People wear green on St Patrick's day and they wear every colour at wedding's.
Long ago there lived a tailor in our district named Tailor McCann and he used always(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jeanette Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal Átha Liag, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Mr M.J. Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Béal Átha Liag, Co. an Longfoirt
