School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 228
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- Long and long ago the people used to wear very long black dresses and check aprons and no hats but big shawls
- Collector
- Eileen Purcell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 8
- Informant
- Mrs Dempsey
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 70
- Address
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Long ago there were very good ploughmen. Good ploughmen worked for fifteen shillings or for one pound. But other men that worked on a farm only got five or ten shillings a week.
