School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 83
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- (continued from previous page)stockings, but they make out of shop wool now.
- There are about seven or eight tailors in this parish now. The most of them work at home. They send away for webs of cloth. They make suits for whoever wants them. Some people wear homespun clothes. First the farmers clip the wool off the sheep and then they card it and then they send it to a weaver and he weaves it into cloth. There is a weaver living near Falcarragh.
- There are a good many tailors in this district at present.The most of them work in their own homes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Doreen Holman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Parkmore, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- M. A. Mc Garvey
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Parkmore, Co. Donegal
