Scoil: San Leonard, Ballycullane

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1. Old-Time Clothes Worn by Women

   

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   The Sun Bonnet

   Most, if not all, the women who lived near the seaside wore what was called a sun bonnet. They made them themselves out of patterned cotton - all colours.
   It took about 3/4 yd of cotton and some light laths or sometimes 'sally' sticks.
   They 'pooked' out 4 or 5 inches beyond the face, this gave the name of 'pooka' bonnets.
   The writer saw women go to Mass in St Leonards on Sundays, with a 'pooka' bonnet (nicely starched and ironed) on the head, & shawl on shoulders.

   
   Woollen skirts & jackets

   Woollen jackets and skirts, fine heavy cloth made by Hickey's, New Ross, from wool fleeces brought in straight from the sheeps' backs by these very women who when made, wore their own home-grown wool.
   The skirts contained yards and yards !

   
   'Hooded' Cloaks

   The writer remembers most of the elderly women of New Ross wearing hooded cloaks.
   These were beautiful, with the costliest of satin lining and special makers to make them.
   The cost of a hooded' cloak would not be less than £10, by the time cloth (yds of it), satin for lining, and flowered velvet for trimming, were bought. Add on then the cloak-maker's bill.

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   Stair Athraigh

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   Mary B. Dunphy

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