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School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)

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Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 143

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    is not spun and woven locally. There are many sayings and traditions about tailors. "As lively as a tailor". "As spinstery as a tailor". Old people consider a tailor the tenth part of a man. The implements the tailors uses are the goose, the chalk, the tape, the scissors, the thimble and the machine. Shirts are made in homes as many women have sowing machines. The cloth of which these shirts are made is called flannelette. Linen shirts were made from flax grown locally. Socks and stockings are knitted nearly in every home. Thread was spun in the home on the olden times, but it is not now.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Brunnock
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doon, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Brunnock
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Doon, Co. Tipperary