Scoil: Cléireacháin, Cluain Meala

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1. Clothes Made Locally

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Only 2 tailors now in te district, John Murrey (?) and Thomas Delahunty. Work now in their homes because of machines. Long ago, there were no machines, work done by hand so travelled from house to house. No cloth now stocked or spun or woven locally.

   Jas. Flynn of Lisronagh, Clonmel used to make 3 suits, 1 man's and two boy's in 3 days with needle alone. He used to walk from Lisronagh to Wm. Ahearne's in Ballyreelish across fields a distance of 3 miles in the morning and reach his destination at 3 a.m. work all day until 9.30 p.m. and then return home. There were 2 tailors in the village of Clerihan named Rocke and Hogan, used cloth called "Ratteen," a blue cloth something like serge. Also made "Flannel waistcoats" which were worn by all men.

   Old saying:- "A tailor is only the 1/9 part of a man."
   An old tradition tells that a sprite, who lived in Baylough, Clogheen, Cahir killed anyone she met except a tailor, who bested her. Sprite called "Petticoat Lewis."

   Instruments used were needles, thread, scissors, tape, lapboard and "goose."

   Shirts still made in the house out of substance called "Check" or shirting. Table clothes made in olden times from flax got from Co. Waterford, over 100 years ago. These table clothes were unwearable.

   Socks and long stockings are still knitted locally, but the thread is not spun. 40 or 50 years ago, old women gathered the wool from briars in the fields and then spun

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   Topaicí

   1. earraí
      1. éadaí agus suaitheantais (~2,403)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   William Ahearne

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   70

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Baile Mhílis Theas, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mary Ahearne

   Gaol

   Seantuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   88

   Seoladh

   Baile Mhílis Theas, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Denis Ahearne

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   70

   Seoladh

   Baile Mhílis Theas, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Hanora Ahearne

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   72

   Seoladh

   Baile Mhílis Theas, Co. Thiobraid Árann