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School: An Baile Mór (roll number 11193)

Location:
Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
D. E. Tate
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 280

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  1. Cloth (continued)

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    made, the tailor would have to stay in the house all night. Our tailor gets home spun cloth from Falcarragh and factory cloth from Convoy in Co Donegal. There is an old saying, “The long thread of a lazy tailor”.
    Margaret Jacob
    Received from-:
    Thomas Jacob
    Cloonmass
    Ballymore
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  2. Shoes Long Ago

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    Long ago some people wore no shoes, summer or winter. Some people who had a pair of shoes, when they were going to the town they would carry the shoes in their hands and when they got near the town they would sit at the
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Jacob
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Jacob
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonmass, Co. Donegal